General Discussion

I'm a 62-year-old man who has spent a liftetime working retail, CS and inside sales jobs.
Diabetes is slwoly killing me. Blurring vision, numb feet. Dental-relatedd pain so bad I swig clove oil daily.
Still working full-time. Had to let the medical insurance go because I could not afford it.
I pride myself on slow-cooking a pot of vegetables and living off that for a week,
Eggs are a treat I allow myself on occasion. Ditto toast and milk.
Cannot afford a car anymore. 9k in my 401k. (Pathetic, I know, But how can you save when every dollar goes to expeenses?)
All I hope for now is a quick, painless death.
I've given up hope of ever making a living wage, or seeing a viable public-option health care plan rolled out nation-wide.
Decades have passed and the life of the hard-pressed working- and middle-classes just keeps getting ground down to nothing.
I would say "hang in there, brother:" but those words ring hollow and empty.
What is to be done?
At this point, the question is irrevelant.
This social-Darwinist, crony-capitalist society we live in has ground most of us down to peasanrty eekinbg out a tawdry, hand-to-mouth existence in the new-feudlism.
I say this w/o sel-f-pity. It is simply a recitation of lived truth uttered from the bottom of the societal barrel.
It is what it is.
And what it is is nightmare.