Comment on 82-year-old Las Vegas McDonald's worker can't afford to retire after decades of service

essell@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, if they wanted to be able to have a life after working full time for decades, they just shouldn’t have been poor. Duh!

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  • Twentytwodividedby7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or perhaps they could have applied their time to learning a trade or skill that paid more than a minimum wage, entry level job meant for teenagers?

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    • Soulg@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or maybe we can stop with the idiotic outdated views that “bad” jobs should pay badly and blame the workers, which is exactly what the corporations want?

      If fast food is a job meant for teenagers, who works there during school hours?

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      • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t understand how we got into this doublethink that a job can be necessary while paying someone who does it a satisfactory wage to live is unnecessary.

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re not going to convince a shitlib that they shouldn’t punch people they think are their lessers. Getting to do that without criticism is why they became a shitlib.

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      • Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Damn I should have kept reading down lol I immediately gave the same response as you about school being open.

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    • Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      entry level job meant for teenagers?

      Sorry friend but no one actually thinks this one through. Is McDonald’s closed when school is open? Who’s working when teenagers are at school? Same thing with any low paying “entry level” job. Who’s doing the work when school is open?

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      • westyvw@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        A 19 year old?

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    • CoCo_Goldstein@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The article is light on details, but I am assuming he was a draftee in Vietnam, which means he served for about 2 years. You become eligible for a military pension after 20 years of service. I’m not sure what you mean by “we’ll past social security” - ‘well past social security’ ? If so, He is totally eligible for social security. The catch is, your SS benefits are based on what you contributed when you were working. Again, details are scant in the article, but it sounds like this guy didn’t have many high paying jobs during his lifetime.

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    • YeetPics@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      McDonald’s

      Solid job

      Yep, inflation stopped in 1964. Everything is peachy.

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