• rauls4@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I recently found out that after 55 you can withdraw from your 401K without penalties if you lose your job.

    It has (I recently turned 55) given me a peace of mind I have never known before. If I get fired, I know it will not be the end of my world, and have my wife’s health insurance to fall back on.

    Crazy how we live so many years with this specter of doom hanging over us.

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      1 year ago

      It is so important that we revitalize labor organization and practice mutual aid.

      No one may survive alone, and no one should be alone.

      Only by taking the workplace and reclaiming the commons may we escape the isolation and precarity forced on us by the systems that tower over us.