Comment on This 81-year-old still works at Home Depot to support herself and her 90-year-old husband

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fuck capitalism.

  Isn’t that an America problem?

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Also randomly wasn’t this how we lived before pensions?

    I suspect you’re making a point here, but I’m not sure what it is.

    Remember that the silents were born in an age where unions were far more prevalent. I’m not sure whether that addresses the point you were trying to make, but maybe.

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    • Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      yeah like before modern capitalism, how did we live? we just worked until we couldn’t yeah?

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  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I know plenty of people in Canada and Mexico that still work much later than they should have to to support family members. Might not be a problem in more socialist countries but definitely not uniquely an American problem.

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    • Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      yeah wondering about the special pleading going on here, as i realised above, I’m really not sure about their finances

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  • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Most of the world has and to a large degree still relies on relatives to support them when they can’t work anymore

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    • Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      100% this is what i was thinking of, what do people in those countries do if they don’t have children to take care of them?

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      • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Some sort of charity. From religious institutions, some sort of alms house etc. Or just beg and die.

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  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Pensions are a roman invention

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    • Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Pensions are a roman invention

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_retirement

      Looks like it was just for those who served in the military, what did other people do?

      In 1881,[3][4] the conservative German chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck, in a maneuver against Marxists who were burgeoning in power and popularity, announced that anyone over 70 years old would be forced to retire and that he would pay a pension to them

      What did they do before 1881? Just keep working?

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      • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Usually, they died well before, or lived in wealth from the remaining wealth.

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