It sure is messed up.
This is what the society has come to that an elderly person has to do this job to build ends meet. I mean given the economic state and corporate greed, it is even difficult for the most qualified people to find jobs and everyone is barely either grinding their ass at function for that paycheck or just looking for a job on linkedin, jobcat, glassdoor, everywhere they can
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I been seeing alot more elderly people working. I been seeing some new elderly employees at the grocery store. Bagging groceries. I even saw an elderly man that could barely walk. He was super slow. Poor gentleman walked with a cane on his way to relieve another team member f...
Lots of delivery and rideshare drivers have to lease cars, which is one reason they're a lot nicer
I think a lot of it has to do with the Healthcare industry. Just having a couple prescriptions you have to take can break the bank. Let alone if you need to have a procedure done. Add to that rising costs on everything else. Social security isnt gonna cut it.
It ia sad if it happens to elderly people. However, this guy was living his youth in a time where there were plenty of chances and opporrunities. You could pay of student loans with summer jobs and could afford a house, family and 2 cars with one manual laborer job. The newer ...
I recently worked the front desk of a condo and saw several elderly people delivering food, as well as parents that had to bring their children along. And anyone who’s ever done delivery gig work knows, not only can it be stressful and exceptionally frustrating, but it require...
My mail woman who works for the GD USPS drives her own car with USPS magnets on the side. Her 8yo puts the mail in the mailbox from the passengers seat.
I think it’s messed up someone used his photo without permission to do this, even if I agree with the sentiment.
How do you know they didn't have permission?
The same reason street auditors can film cops give this person the right to post the ring footage: “There is no expectation of privacy in a public setting.”
[“The United States spends 2.4 times as much on the elderly as on children, measured on a per capita basis, with the ratio rising to 7 to 1 if looking just at the federal budget…”](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/spending-on-children-and-the-elderly/). US society has been p...
Will you say the same for the GenX that follows them? How about the Millennials? Either you have compassion and empathy or you post comments like this.
It boggles my mind that the USA has the biggest socialist system in place, but it’s reserved for the few and branded as the military. Which pays for housing, gives you living stipend, pays for your food, education, health for free and in exchange for public service (in this ca...
It is easier to understand once to accept that the U.S. has always been structured as a caste system.
Yes but the military kind of owns you, you can’t live life the way you want when you’re in the military, you can’t just quit either
This guy is up to his eyeballs in socialized medicine and safety nets. He’s eligible for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. I’m sure if you dig deeper, you’ll find the story of a couple who splurged, and never thought they needed to save for living into their 80’s.
Yeahhhh ima need to see who he voted for--
Why does that matter? This isn't a problem tied to one administration or one party or whatever, it's the reality of the American dream in action and all of you at absolute best don't give a fuck.
I wanna know how his wife lost a job. It's easy to karma farm when you don't include all the information.
Isn't that the generation that fucked the golden goose. One working person house, car, vacations? Shouldn't he have put things aside? He's getting his full social security. Him still working while some families need both parents to have a full and part time job isn't the cry m...
I’m sure your magical powers allow you to see how he’s voted and what he’s supported his whole life. Congrats on proving you don’t have to be a shitty Republican to have no empathy.
How did you determine what he is getting from Social Security? I have many elderly neighbors who are getting approximately $800-$1200 per month from Social Security after having worked for 50 years or more.
*A shadow and a threat has been growing in my mind*, we cant get healthcare because our healthcare is designed to rob people of their lifes savings so that most people cant leave any wealth to their decendants.
Let it be known this is ONLY IN AMERICA
Is that what makes America great?
Yall keep voting red and they keep giving tax cuts to the rich and they just tried to cut social security again so I need to make sure who he voted for so I can provide proper support.
Both parties are the problem. Democrats are oligarchy-lite
This motherfucker prolly voted for this and continues to vote for this.
is it weird that the picture is from a door cam?
late stage capitalism be wild
Fuck that. He lived in the easiest generation in history. If he fumbled that layup that's all him. Meanwhile him and his cohort pulled the ladder up behind him. Eat bootstraps boomer!
I do have sympathy for people as a general rule, I really do. But it is an unequivocal fact this white guy lived in the most economically prosperous time that has ever existed. This man had more options and opportunities than anyone before or after him. When housing was the ch...
But his wife working is fine?
Don’t worry. They’re fine. Gofundme has them set for the rest of their lives in like 2 days. 600k for our little delivery driver.
It reads very condescending. This “little” delivery driver is not the only one. The post is about the state of the country and how it is failing elderly. You have essentially said “this one guy is fine” and it dismisses the actual issue and point of the post.
Almost at $1 million now.
Why am I being downvoted?? It’s true, they’ve been all over the news. People raised a shit ton of money for them. What’d I say wrong?
But, we have the most billionaires and millionaires.
Why are we even talking about this? The Dow is over 50,000!
These stories are always framed as heartwarming but they are actually a symptom of a deeply broken system
I don't complain when they slack off or struggle to keep up and hope the 20 something's do the same thing for me when I'm in that spot in 30-40 years
Colonel Sanders shouldn't have to work.
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What’s really messed up is that this applies to lots of seniors, and also that it applies to many more people not as old as seniors, most of whom have no Social Security income. I’m not saying that the Social Security payments are always enough to live on for seniors, but lots...
Dude has had decades to use compounding growth to build a wealth floor. Shame on him for not making the most of it.
Unfortunately, delivery jobs like door dash and instacart only cover the wear and tear on your vehicle if you are rather picky about which orders you pick up. Just like any job, they will pay as little as possible to trick employees into the job, this job just has many more hi...
He should have pulled himself up by his bootstrap, like Musk. /s The American dream is not for us plebs.
Start saving for retirement or that will also be your fate
They made the wrong choices and need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, just like this gentleman is doing. Everyone can become wealthy under market economy Laissez-faire capitalism. Freedom! USA! Get back to work, prole.
Source - dude just trust me
Maybe he enjoys working. Many people retire and hate it. I did. I’m 70 and still work and glad I do. Thankfully he’s healthy enough to do something to earn a living.
Are you saying we blanket cover all elderly?
And yet younger people hate him and call him boomer.
Sounds like merica
Just to pay for their meds is the issue. Health care is the biggest scam on the US people
If an old person, with all the opportunities that paying for college exclusively in recycled cans could afford, can find themselves in this situation just imagine what'll happen to you!
poor richard 🥺 that’s actually heartbreaking, no one that age should have to hustle like that just to get by
Hey. Let's blame who deserves it here. The rich who propagandized our people and turned us against each other.
Stop feeling bad for the generation that did this to the world. They voted and they are in charge. He should have pulled himself up by the boot straps when he had the best economy in decades .... Boomers should be jailed but they are the last generation to retire
The generation that set this system to operate this way died long before the year 1850.
Depends his wife’s age. First off she shouldn’t be working if she’s 80 or whatever but what if she’s 19?
This is such a weird take on this
Then she misunderstood part of marrying a morbidly old dude for his money?
Sounds like at that age they just weren't smart enough to save money. I'm part of a generation that never got to taste any wealth just survive.
Bro, 80% of people arent paid enough to live let alone save.
He voted for this.
You really don't know that to be true. There's people his age voting for change that have been voting for change for decades that the feckless Democrats are too spineless to deliver.