Aging - Halting That Catastrophic Fall into Homelessness, Like Fern in "Nomadland"

 Robert Kiyosaki, author of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad," is blunt. Given the current perfect storm of macro realities, too many of the baby boomer generation could wind up homeless. Those are the ones lacking enough of a financial reserve in investments and carrying too much debt to hold up as prices keep rising. 

Standard first step toward that could be a car repo. 

In my tarot readings I'm already bearing witness to the aging who haven't taken radical steps to prevent winding up unhoused. They continue to fund a way of life they can no longer afford, along with not increasing income, not building even a little bit of wealth through investing.

Here is typical boomer magical thinking: It's a mindset that won't let in the scope of financial, technological and political global and domestic disruption. The assumption is that the growing darkness is simply just another pause in the good life. For example, on professional anonymous networks such as Reddit there are the naive questions about when will the job market return to what it had been.

The disruption is being labeled "the post-American" global reality. 

According to the 2024 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report, the fastest growing group of the homeless are the aging. The prototype had been Fern from film "Nomadland." Gone was her job when the plant closed down. There's no work in town. Her husband had died a few years earlier. 

In a run-down van with no hygiene facilities Fern hits the road. Along the way, thanks to our new kinds of heroes such as the real-life Bob Wells, she acquires survival skills. Those range from how to pick up work of any kind and how to fix a tire. 

My guidance is optimistic: You can keep a roof over your head. But you have to start over again in how you approach money. The entire continuum. 

In the post-American era there's still the low-hanging fruit like clerking in a convenience store or doing seasonal gigs. You can also become certified in sustainable earning slots like home healthcare and medical coding. Maybe you can even hang onto a career.

But also there's embracing what was probably unthinkable: starting your own micro business. You identify a gap in what people need/want, then figure out how to fill it. And there you are a solopreneur. That model for financial survival got my immigrant family through The Great Depression. 

It should go without saying that you live below your income. That's the price of entry for investing, that is building wealth. At any age. Rich dad knew all about not having the compulsion to showcase success through spending. 

The real-life analogue of Fern did manage to get off the road and back into brick-and-mortar. She purchased a house near Sierra Vista, Arizona. I heard about that several years ago when I was doing tarot readings near the border of Mexico.

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