I am perplexed by this article. I am 77. I bought my first computer in 1983. I imagine there are literally thousands of people like me. I am computer savvy and I have been on the Internet for at least 30 years. I have two iPads, a laptop computer, an iPhone X and I live in a retirement community. Many of us have smart phones. Why does this seem like an unusual thing?

Thank you for this very positive article about how many senior citizens are now internet savvy and questions to ask when selecting a retirement facility! Internet access and speeds to accommodate many apps like music and movies is very important or even if it's offered in more rural settings! Thanks for sharing this! 💗💗💗

Whatever helps them......

Andrea Lynn

Birth control! It's imperative to helping poor countries get control of their lives.

According to studies, $40 billion a year could end global poverty... America spent $892 billion on its military last year...

The hell with Africa start at home in america

Awww how nice. The Gates’ aren’t ok with extreme poverty... just middle of the road poverty, such as that which so many of their fellow Americans live in.

Shouldn't we be celebrating new life and population growth? Where there is life there is hope!

Tell that child to run!! It's Bill Gates.... who doesn't like children.... hence, the Common Core.

I agree that birth control is part of the solution. Also, cultural beliefs must change in regards to children being your wealth.

How do they do this when people like the President of Tanzanian say things like....If a woman doesn't have more than two children, its because she's lazy and doesn't want to care for them. He condemned the use of contraceptives in a country where the average income is $2/day.

I suppose most people don't get the concept of you can help in more than ONE country at a time! AND most making negative comments probably only help themselves! It's so hard to be grateful, right? 😢😢😢

Rapid population growth is what you get when people have their basic needs met. Didn’t the Gates’s see this coming? It’s a pretty basic concept.

Investment in America needed to do the same.

Geez, people really can find fault with anything. The Gates are endeavoring to alleviate the suffering of impoverished children!

Lots of problems here to solve. Nothing wrong with helping Africa but man we have big problems here. Your right Mary extreme birth control can help slow down the amount of problems they have.

I agree start with America that's where my charity allowance goes.

Need to curb irresponsible population growth.

They could literally fix every problem Africa faces, but instead they put in about 10% of that effort and pat themselves on the back. Yes, they help a lot! They definitely do! But it's nothing compared with actually fixing the problems.

Investment right here at home is necessary to keep bone-crushing poverty at bay.

It’s so sad that there is no reason for anyone to suffer. Globally we can put this to rest.

Or maybe just help everybody in need 🤷🏼‍♀️

Anywhere they don’t believe in ZPG or NPG ; they’re a bad investment and going to kill the Planet 🌎

You two are naturals with those babies.

Well just give them your GMO crap Mr Gates

Poor people shouldn't be allowed to have kids

Educate the men, get safe and effective birth control for the women.

"Please give me back to my family! Aaaaahhhhhhh!"

I love the preacher's until they fall into a medical crisis, maybe terminal cancer as a friend's mom did. Her mother's carefully planned retirement went to pay the excess hospital bills and then the initial fees of assisted living to place her for at least 2 years. Paying $3,000 a month to live for medical care/assisted living and the medical bills and dying of cancer were not in the plan. Please remember no matter who you are we can all be humbled. ♡

It's seems everyone posting at least has high speed internet at home and a computer or tablet. Or a smart phone with an expensive data plan. Learn to tighten your belt and not waste money on luxury items now and save for the future you say you can't afford

I don't have a week of retirement saved up. I could probably retire for the better part of an afternoon, but very comfortably.

While the top 1 percent admit they don't need the money and are buying new yachts and other toys with your money.

We are both hourly Walmart retirees, I lived in a 12x52 mobile home for 20 years, antenna TV, bought durable goods, no electronic gadgets, brown bag lunches, seldom ate out, (did buy cheap bourbon). Put every extra dime in the 401k as did she, all in growth stocks, weathered couple of downturns but it always comes back. Now have medicare, a big help. We have 3 acres of heaven, go RVing three or four days a week. I have known people with three times our paycheck, broke before payday.

Word of advice to young people: Start saving now...no matter how small the monthly amount is, start there and work up all your working life.

Well yeah-- the cost of living dictates that most of us regular people who pay off a mortgage in 30 years, help 2 or 3 kids go to college, pay for a couple weddings....when does the saving part start? This is why our SS benefits are so crucial!

Yikes! I might've been one of them, but my hubby insisted we immediately started contributing to the 401k straight out of college, even when we were living on 29.5k/yr. That was 13 years ago, and I'm so glad we budgeted to make that a priority, even with a new little baby and new tiny house. It's already grown substantially in 13 years. So I definitely preach to youngsters to start right away with the first job, even if they're basically poor.

Yes! It drives me crazy! Our parents didn’t have to replace 100 devices every year. Cars & appliances were cheap& no one had to pay for internet, cell service, phones, computers. They break or become obsolete in 5 years. I would love to pitch them all, but my husband needs his for work, my kids’ teachers communicate via Dojo online & school sends email & texts for everything important. We ditched cable, but everything is just so expensive!

We were making great money, had a big house, then when my husband hit 53 he lost his job and never found another one equal to the last. We tried for years, after all he was only 53. Well we ate up our retirement.......long story short. If only we had known at 53 it was the end for him we would have set ourselves up for retirement and just taken a mediocre job just to cover the bills......but it's hard to go from high to low .........our mistake.

Honestly, I work with people who don't even have bank accounts & don't participate in company retirement plans. But they'll expect money from someone when they retire. They spend money like it's a bottomless pit. I have always been a saver-my parents instilled that in me. I don't deny myself things but I also carefully consider major purchases. Just have to have priorities in order. Just because it's new & fancy doesn't mean you have to have it!

I saw a tv show just the other day...many many grandparents are now raising grandkids because the parents are hooked on drugs...all of them said they wanted to travel etc in retirement..and are using their retirement funds all up...sad that this is happening....felt so bad for the " grandpa" who had tears in his eyes..cancer diagnosis and it did not sound good...

Could it be because wages haven't kept up with the price of anything in the last 40 years? My wife and I are on the win the lottery retirement plan.

Social security was kinda supposed to help with that but then inflation ran wild and rents skyrocketed and health care went through the roof and suddenly if you don’t have a million dollars set aside you’re gonna be lucky if you aren’t sleeping in the streets. Sigh

We both work for a university. We don't get to save for retirement because government work doesn't pay or reward well.

I lost my job, retirement funds snd home in 2011 in the economy bottom out. Now I am in an overpriced apt, get my Internet at the library and without food stamps go food less. I can't recoup my losses at my age and am forced to depend on SS. Oh, and my car is 20 yrs old. Thank you federal government for bankrupting the middle class for your greed. I don't believe in socialism, but now detest capitalism.

Retirement? I thought you just worked till you died. How does one save for retirement? You mean, there's people out there who actually have extra money just lying there unassigned to survival fees? Wow! This is the greatest nation on earth! #RootingForTheAsteroid

We don’t have savings. I was broke broke this morning. I mean change in the ashtray broke and I am a Nurse but I get paid Monday. Check gone bills paid. We still have to eat and live. You can’t save when your in a deficit from birth. I want somebody that wasn’t born rich to show me how you do it.

I had money in the bank, thankfully, when hubby had a stroke 3.5 years ago. It, along with his Social Security disability kept me home rehabbing him for 2 years. However, it took everything we had in the bank.

Meanwhile, medical expenses and the cost of living in general is through the roof. If this is isn't a recipe for disaster, I don't know what is.

That is sad, because you will run into a lot of expenses that you weren't planning for. Medicare. . .ouch. . .not free at all. Housing expenses. Car expenses. We drive old cars and pray that they will run for a few more years. We are some of the lucky ones that have money saved up, but we are NOT careless with what we have.

We probably have about 4 years as long as our house is paid off & we qualify for Medicare. Hopefully by retirement we will have at least 11 more. And die by 82 lol

I will never be able to afford Retire, forget about having kids, almost all of the money I could be saving gets sunk into managing chronic illnesses so I can function and work to help pay bills. What little is able to save always gets sucked up into some emergency. I'm hoping I never have to go on disability. I definitely can't afford to get old. I am not optimistic about the future.

I am really looking forward to being heavily taxed until the day I die. And then, whatever is left, taxed before the kids can have it... It's a great system.

*raises hand* Because I went to college for a long time later in life I missed out on working. I did work for a long time, but wasn't paid well, so whatever I put into a retirement account/social security is less than anyone can live off of and it stresses me out. I work for myself now but I'm terrible at it.

What’s sad is we no longer value the arts and science. This begins the inevitable demise of modern society.

History can be more easily rewritten to suit the regime in power..

All the "acting" curators will do the job for half the money and will never be promoted. Because that is how these things work.

Because our government is funding stupid things like weekend golfing trips, lawyers and building sections of a wall no one wants. This takes money out of the Arts, NASA, Education, SNAP, VNA, etc.

Bottom line it’s the bottom line. Elimination of jobs with benefits is the name of the game. Curators will always be necessary but they will now work freelance without a jobs safety net.

More than ten years later, I wonder how many folks are even remotely aware of what W Bush did to the National Archives. ...Which still hasn't fully recovered.

Curators could combine together to offer an auxiliary service for a myriad of artistic corporations. So very many positions are out sourced today, the model is doable this way they would be the company offering the service on a as needed Basis. More control and more equilibrium. You can even rent a lovely office or board today for the hour you actually need it for the meeting.... The world has shifted .

And then all the artwork will go “missing”, stored in caves by the current regime. Sound familiar??????

I am saying: look for the buck.

may be no museums and art in private collection???

So you are going to let the students do the teachers work without benefit of teachers? And when those students complete their educations, exactly which jobs are they prepared to do ?

So you are going to let the students do the teachers work without benefit of teachers? And when those students complete their educations, exactly which jobs are they prepared to do ?

Watch the Art of the Steal, and see what happened to the Barnes Foundation collection. That’s a big clue. Decisions will be made solely for 🤑

Retrain, learn new skill set, etc.

Sadly gone the way of librarians here.

It wilk be like when all the school librarians are gone.

As art goes so goes a civilized world. How very sad for all of us,

Which way is Essex? I'll be heading the other way. 😉

Omg I hate this

Work for free.

Very distressing trend.

They sadly close. 😒

Not right..

I know nothing about the SFAI, so will no comment on it BUT, here's my story of what happens when there's no curator. Several years ago, in a sizable western city, I visited the art museum, and viewed the gems of their permanent collection: some "tribal"pieces donated many years before. Three of these gems were in a glass showcase in the middle of a gallery. I viewed them from all sides. At this time, I also learned that this department HAD NO CURATOR. Fast forward to a few years later when I was browsing in a well-respected antique store 2 blocks from the museum. Finally, I asked, "Got any ____ _____ pieces?" Dealer: "I have something in the back, but it's broken. Interested?" Me:"Yes". What he brought out was one of the pieces from the museum two blocks away -- the carving I'd admired a few years before! After not reacting overtly, we began to talk. Yes, I bought it, at a fantastically low price. I remembered that it had had a wire around it when it was in the museum. It still had the wire. I had the piece repaired, and display it in my home. This is what happens when there is no curator. The staff pokes around and sees what they might sell to bring in money to pay the light bills. Nobody votes on this; nobody gives a professional opinion. The staff just has to raise X number of dollars by Friday, or the lights get shut off. This is how museums are apt to lose their permanent collections and years later, when somebody figures out what's gone -- they can't imagine whatever might have happened.

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