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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

American dream: 80-yo hobbling upstairs with a cane delivering food to an unemployed 25-yo with $200 in the bank who spends $25 of it to get Wendy's from Doordash. I just want an economy that makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

America is increasingly becoming third world. It reminds me of my home country, where many elders still work to the bone.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

At what point is it stopped being called capitalism and start being called slavery again?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Once we are living in Freedom Cities and essentially serfs without the protection of federal law.

They are going to sabotage any people outside these city-states to force people to submit and live there as slaves rather than starve

Look up Dark Enlightenment, and Network States. This is not conspiracy, the VP is vocally in favor of these ideas

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

When they stop paying

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

They're entrepreneurs! They're being their own boss and improving their lives through freedom!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

People really fall for the "America used to be great" propaganda, huh?

Did no one learn anything in middle school history? We definitely covered ✨the 1900s✨, which featured multiple world wide depressions/ressessions that the US was not exempt from, two world wars where millions of people died, the great dust bowl and famine, and plenty of corruption. Most of which happened just before or during our grandparents lives. It's not like we're talking about the colonial era of this continent or something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Post Mortem Stage Cap

[–] [email protected] 56 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

I've seen this several times in Florida (retirement capitol of the US). Often times it's couples trying to drive around doing deliveries. They don't even know what a GPS is so they take forever and a day. But then they finally arrive and your anger turns to sorrow when you see these frail old people just trying to survive.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I've noticed that more and more seniors are entering the labor force after retirement and it doesn't have to do with keeping busy. One of my local grocery stores had a woman who would work a few days a week but she quit during Covid. Ran into her on another occasion. She said she quit because she was just doing it to keep busy and she wasn't going to work if she didn't have to. I don't see that anymore. If I make a comment about "keeping busy" to anyone who says they're retired they admit they can't keep up with insurance or property tax increases without working. We're going to see more and more of this as social security dwindles and prices continue to increase.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe I'm a bit of an optimist but my grandpa does door dash too, not necessarily for the money because he was lucky enough to have a good retirement net, but just because he fucking hates retirement and is so bored now that hes not allowed to do handyman things anymore (doctor and grandma said he's too old to be running a table saw or climbing a ladder) so he does door dash.

We did make him go pass a driver's test before we let him though haha

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Sounds like your grampa would love a part-time job at a hardware store.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

People choosing to stay in the workforce until they almost tip over is great if that's what they want. There's definitely something to be said for keeping some sort of structure. If seen retirement degrade way too many people.

Being forced to stay in the workforce needs to die a swift death.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah some people simply can't create the structure that a job creates for them and just rapidly decay in retirement. Others work harder in retirement than they ever did during their careers

[–] [email protected] 30 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

And that's why the elderly have become the largest and fastest growing segment of the unhoused

[–] [email protected] 20 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

as social security and welfare are dismantled before our eyes (across both Dem and GOP administrations), homelessness will certainly rise especially among the elderly. i for one won't let my parents die in the street but caring for them full time means never having time or money to have children of my own.

capitalism has taken so much from us.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago

In an ironic kind of way, I'm glad my parents abused me. I don't have to feel guilty about letting them rot. Sure, I have lifelong mental illness, but at least I'll have a bit more money to spend on therapy for it.

[–] [email protected] 114 points 23 hours ago (26 children)

This is going to be even worse if/when Musk and trump dismantle Social Security. The adult middle class will collapse entirely when their seniors will lose their homes and food, and their children are still at home because they can't afford to live on their own.

Couple this with smaller family sizes, this could mean two single child adults might have to support four living senior citizens (both sets of parents) while also raising children of their own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Kt looks like they have no other option that legalize euthanasia

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

If we're euthenizing the ultra rich then I'm probably on board

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