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>spend decades working, working on the side, thrifting, saving, pinching pennies
>after long decades finally reach retirement
>realize you haven't lived at all and if you've had kids to begin with you have by now thoroughly alienated them as your parents back in the day did with you
>you realize that you can't carry the rotting fruits of your labor to hell, which is where you will be going very soon
>decide to spend as much of it as possible before croaking hoping that going places and buying things will fill the growing emptiness
>do group tourism in southeast europe with other boomers whose lives followed a similar arc because you still want to be thrifty
>die there and be left rotting on the street, to no one's particular care or concern
germany in a nutshell