Comment on 82-year-old Las Vegas McDonald's worker can't afford to retire after decades of service
Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Don’t worry guys, a GoFundMe will be able to give him the retirement money McD successfully cheated themselveds out of.
They didn’t work at mcdonalds until they were 67 years old. They worked for 30 years as a radiation monitor at a nevada test site that should have provided a pension.
Where did the money from 35 years of that income (1964-1999) go? where did the pension go?
Now it’s a feel-good story about community!
And then another news outlet will write a misleading headline that makes it sound like McDonald’s gave them the money! All will be whole again.
Damage@feddit.it 3 months ago
Uhmmm… At this point, what if you guys set up like a GoFundMe for everybody? Like you all agree to put a part of your wages into this common GoFundMe, which is a small cost all in all, and when the time comes, each worker gets their own payout! You could even have it pay monthly, to make sure that nobody can waste all their fund too early and end up destitute.
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 months ago
We could call it “Social Security”. Before there was GoFundMe, there were taxes that could be used in a similar fashion for expenses society finds valuable.
I’ll be the evil right wing swine here and say it out loud - I don’t expect you to be able to retire from a part time minimum wage job, but that’s also the reason we have ’safety nets’ that are supposed to ‘catch’ you in these cases. It shouldn’t be a surprise that you can’t retire from a McDonalds gig but don’t let your outrage redirect you from the “one in four adults do not have any retirement savings”, or the (implied?) social security is insufficient
Damage@feddit.it 3 months ago
Uhm, if you’ve worked all your life, you deserve retirement, regardless of the job you held.
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There should be a safety net letting you have livable requirement regardless whether you’ve worked or how successfully
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 months ago
We have a retirement pool at my job where when someone retires, everyone in the pool donates them an hour of pay.
Not enough to live off of for the rest of your life, but it’s a nice little bonus. I think we’re at like 95% participation, too.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s kind of cool. Although with the turn over rate of how long most people stay at jobs these days I am shocked not more people have the jaded mentality of “why should I do this if I’ll never benefit from it myself”. Pretty cool that everyone just does the better thing for others.