If the government (representing currently old people) would not be so shameless as to take, on average, 45% of my income, or 52% of each extra EURO I make, and add 20% for my employer on top, which makes the real taxation 65% to 72% for an engineer with a proper degree in this shithole country of socialist Germany, I could stop doing the rat race at 45 instead of 55. I save 40% of my meager after tax pay, but I will never see a "state pension" that deserves the name, and I am forced to pay for it regardless. Politics and society took that away by ignoring the low birth rate for 50(!!!) years while suffocating science and entrepreneurship over here. We are ruled by shameless idiots and the majority likes it.
I have the things I need and little of what I could imagine 20 years earlier. Travel is fine, the rest sucks.
So little ambition and that much entitlement by society.
Humankind could be on Mars by now, and energy could be clean, but here we sit unable to build a house combining my income with my SO's income. Meaning we will have fewer children because well, I would like to life in financial security which is hard to attain in Europe, and would like to keep that security by moving to the States possibly some time in the future. Just that it all takes much longer.
That makes me so angry.
I mean, look at the world in 2019. Is that REALLY the best world that could have been? Is it close? That I doubt very much. Not only angry, but also dissappointed.