Our healthcare system is honestly pretty solid. The annual health checks we have is probably the single biggest reason for our high life expectency. I was surprised to hear a lot of folks in the US never go to the hospital for preventative care.

Retirement eh....well, we will see if a pension still exists by the time (people aren't sure, and they keep trying to kick up the retirement age). In theory, we have pretty decent retirement options with a public pensions everyone pays into, plus a private pension your employer pays into. I know folks retiring now, and none of them really ever did any investing at all. Especially that generation, there is a pretty common distrust of the financial markets and banks.

I did some calculations a while ago, and assuming (big assumption) that the pension systems remains fairly constant to my retirement, I would be capable of retiring reasonably comfortably. Not going to be traveling the world or anything, but definitely more than enough for me. Especially as I plan to retire somewhere even more rural than I am now, which would lower the cost of living drastically.

So be it... They are gonna do the genocide regardless... There should at least be some resistance to it. NGL, I am fond of my relatively comfortable life in the west, but if it is at the expense of the global south and the west's demise is inevitable anyways, then fine. My life and comfort is not more valuable than those in Gaza. They are humans too.