While I applaud people for donating, each donation should come with calls to congress asking why on earth a 90 year old is forced to work to survive in our society. We should be ashamed
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2024
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the elected feel no shame. its the new normal.
That's such a great idea! A site where we can pay a dollar to annoy a politician and that dollar goes to someone who needs it!! Can you make that?!
Sure, I’ll call it Shittysins United
Share a link when it's ready.
I remember a post showing how to contact your representative, immediately followed by instructions for hiring a stripper-gram. I feel like glitter would be a great option for annoying politicians. That and gummy-dicks.
Orphan crushing machine continues its implacable work
I was about to riot because I'm used to seeing a headline like this in r/upliftingnews. Absolutely shameful that this is where we are.
is there a c/OrphanCrushingMachine yet?
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Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !orphancrushing@lemmy.world
There's ABoringDystopia
My... How American 🙈
We shouldn't use charity to fix the system - we need to tax the rich into poverty.
At this point, that's the moderate position. Expropriate their asses!
I pushed carts at a big box store for a year in my 20's. Fucking sucked. In an 8 hour shift you could easily walk 20,000+ steps and walk over 10 miles (GPS verified). And you do it no matter the weather. Pouring rain? Out there. Sweltering heat? Out there. -5F and 6" of snow? Out there.
This work can be brutal, even for a young healthy person, let alone a 90 year old vet.
The worst part? I was paid the exact same wage as the cashiers who stayed inside the entire time. About $10/hr on average in 2017.
I had my first minor heart attack pushing carts in the snow for Toys R US at 16. That was a brutal job for $4.75 an hour in 97.
I worked at a grocery store in 2003 in California for a short time. I joined just after a major strike had ended. As always, the company was pushing for lower wages and benefits, the union wanted higher. They came to an agreement with a two tiered system, tenured employees got to stick with a pay scale and benefits slightly better than what they'd had before.
New employees got fucked.
A couple months in I was promoted to cashier from bagger and got to see the two tiers. I was starting at $18 per hour, the original tier started at more than double that and went up pretty high.
Not really related to your comment, but I'm a little drunk after a rough day and seeing those amounts just really fucking pisses me off. My numbers are not adjusted for inflation and wages have gone down for the job I did in the last 20 years. It's fucking maddening.
Nobody should be working at that age. Heartbreaking.
I want to share this with some friends but i know that my 10 blue friends will say we need to make retirement available to everyone and my two red friends will make a comment about Biden and inflation.
We need to first dislodge retirement from Wall Street, and make a law that social security cannot ever be used as any funding for anything but what it was designed for.
America Americaaaa, from sea to shining sea - Where people have to work to 90 and beg for money to retire.
Great to see from the donors.