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This 81-year-old still works at Home Depot to support herself and her 90-year-old husband
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2025
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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.
yeah like before modern capitalism, how did we live? we just worked until we couldn't yeah?
I don't think they're arguing for the old ways but rather just wondering out loud
Yep so it sounds like computers and society may be to blame for this? As we've moved towards a more individualistic society over the last 100 years we've gained a lot of things but being able to take care of our elders appears to have been lost in the fray :\
This will hurt a lot coming up with the low fertility rate and significant amount of older people
why do you talk in a weird wikipedia style :/
edit: are you using a translator app/website?
from your earlier post
as worked out above in my other post they are not living on the street, they’re living an extremely nice first world life that they need to pay for, they could easily cut their expenses down by 1/3rd and still have a better life than most of the planet and in history without the need for any of their children or others having to live with them
this sounds like you read a wikipedia article on communism and are just pasting it here
they live, clearly, materially better conditions not just in nearly every aspect of the workplace, from safety to tools, to a clearly materially better life in a nice happy retirement village with a nice new car and all the first world modern medicine they need, not the least after they have recently had multiple modern surgeries which have kept them alive to begin with
they blame their situation on a lack of access to personal finance advice:
and i’m pretty sure they’re not planning on moving to cuba anytime soon