Wdym, things don’t happen overnight. It’s takes time to assess where you have assets right now, what infrastructure are needed and time to buy up the system to actually enforce things. This is so fantasy magic land.

And at the end they get to fuck Tom Brady

Doesn't change the point. You can travel the world east to west in 5 stops or 50 stops

Edit in fact they are doing 18 which is pretty good going!

Well, if this was just an average vacation, it wouldn't be news, would it?

Their plan is 18 countries

>>regretting not traveling more when they were young

I guess you didn't read the article because they sound like seasoned travelers. They met while traveling in Zambia two decades ago. The point of the trip was to go around the world in 80 days at age 80, not the type of travel you described.

Yeah, well you know... that's just like, your opinion, man.

That’s wonderful, but I question the wisdom of surprising someone who’s 112 years old.

Future generations have some time ahead of them - why not see what happens. And start putting $5 a month into your 401K now if you have any taxable income at all. If that's the system we've got, might as well take advantage of it.

(Systems are not conservative or liberal; they are just headless systems. The trick is to figure out how to nudge them in one direction or another.)

This is really good to see, and hopefully more will be on the way.

I would do 25 countries maximum if I were them. Preferably 15 ish or less..

Met 2 60yr plus (we didn't ask) french ladies traveling for a few months, in Burma who had recently travelled India.

Within minutes of meeting us they told us about sh*tting the bed in India 😂 (in a very humorous way to be clear, not as crass as it sounds). Had mad respect for them - no comfy cruises you would usually associate with that age, were backpacking like the rest of us and having a riot.

With technological advancements these days, 80 year olds today are like 60 year olds in the 40s.

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Learnt years ago there's no 'right way' to travel.

Some people enjoy riding 100mile days on a bicycle. Some people fly everywhere and cram as much as possible into 2 weeks. Some people prefer to sit on a beach for 2 weeks in an all inclusive. I enjoy backpacking for at least 3 weeks to a month in a single country.

Each has merit, reasons and personal preferences. We all rest differently

They must have won the Gemini Croquette trip to Fhloston Paradise

⬆️ THIS!!!

For travel? There are plenty of digital nomads out there travelling the world right now for way more than 80 days and not waiting for retirement to do so. I've even met multi-year backpackers who do it on very stretched dollars and small incomes, but because they travel slow they can make it work. Retirement isn't guaranteed either way, so if travel is something people want to do they have to make it fit into their life choices (also it's probably far easier to enjoy and spend less on when in good health, but im saying that as someone who budget travels and can easily shrug off inconveniences while traveling). Also, theres no need to wait on other people to travel, solo travel is pretty damn relaxing.

I wish you were right. But you’re vastly underestimating the affect that automation and climate change in particular are going to have on societies worldwide. These issues represent two apocalyptic horizons - one economic and one environmental - which are going to make this whole unsustainable capitalist economic system come crashing down, likely within the lifetimes of current young people.

I sure as hell fell like it.

My hamstrings have started to hurt a lot after 2 hour of driving.

Cool for them but i don't feel very uplifted at the thought of these wealthy boomers taking a long vacation

That is you and this is them. Are you also 81 years old?

Way too little, way too late. We're doomed. And by we, I mean younger generations. I'll be dead before it gets real shitty.

Let’s be happy for them. Maybe they lived a life of service to others.

I mean, it isn’t really tho. There are still going to be plenty of people doing this type of thing that are young now especially given how much healthier people that are young now will be in old age.

Sure you could argue fewer people will have this level of economic freedom but ain’t like it’s gonna be 0.