Remember. Lots of people in this country look at this and say he doesn't deserve a house because his job isn't good enough.
But they are happy to eat at Burger King. The food is good enough for them, but the people making the food aren't.
And raising his wage wouldn't raise the price of burgers.
European countries have shown that is false
Edit: I misread you.. oops. I thought you meant "would" not "wouldn't"
I mean, I don’t think it’s too much of the people’s fault that greedy corporate burger chains exist and obliterate local competition.
$6.50 for a shitty “meal”
Or
$18.99 for a “handmade” burger and some fries with a small coke.
At this point we all agree that McDonald’s doesn’t have some secret ingredient that makes people love it. It’s the only thing to enjoy and you’ll like it.
Went to Burger King recently. About $18 for the burger, fries, and medium drink.
Maaaaaaaan.
I don’t know what we’re waiting for. Who the fuck are we waiting on? A YouTube video essay? Some podcast rant?
It’s apparent that not even legal confirmation on how the world is owned by the few was enough.
No single politician can change a system where everyone is financially inclined to fuck over everyone else.
Why are faceless corporations running our cities and towns? Why are we okay with it?
More importantly why aren’t we enraged that they stole our future from us?
Is literally no one extremely depressed that their home town has 3 fucking Starbucks, 3 McDonald’s, 2 Jack in the boxes and is literally unwalkable??? I can’t with this reality. It’s nothing but strip malls.
I don’t want to be a part of this disgusting shit.
His job isn't good enough, his employer, Burger King, treated him like shit for 27 years paying bottom of the barrel wages to the point where he couldn't afford a down payment or mortgage on a house.
It doesn't mean he doesn't deserve a house, anyone who works full time should be able to afford a house. It doesn't have to be a big luxurious house, but they should be able to own a place big enough for themselves and their dependents a reasonable distance from work.
I wonder what is most to blame, 1) real wage deflation, 2) real wealth deflation or 3) rising cost of living
If he really wanted a house he would have just hustled more, like getting 3 extra full time jobs, or selling some organs. Stop rewarding lazy uncommitted people that are scared of the grind.
It's his own fault for not being born into emerald mine money. If Elon can do it, so could he, if he weren't too lazy.
Also, Burger King decided long ago he doesn't deserve a house, regardless of how hard he works or how few days he calls in for. That's Corporate Greed, and it's insatiable.
"Guy who works in food service admits that he went to work sick and likely spread it to hundreds of people because it's the only way he could make ends meet, and now he can afford a house but not because of his hard work, but because it went viral on the internet."
What a heart warming story.
It kind of mirrors the story of Typhoid Mary in a way, where it's thought that one of the reasons why she kept going back to work as a cook, spreading Typhoid fever, was because she was homeless and on the verge of poverty.
Presumably, if she had been offered an out that wasn't being institutionalised, and locked up on an island for indefinite quarantine, or risky surgery, she might have taken it, and the story would have never panned out.
You're not "on the verge of poverty" if you're homeless. You're living in poverty.
I don't know if I like this interpretation, I mean it's true and i don't like it, but it puts blame on him for the fucked up system... With the shitty pay and hours of fast food we don't know if missing even one day of work means he couldn't pay bills.
Even in an ideal fully automated luxury gay space communist society, nothing is ever truly completely automated, you'll need some people you can count on to be there to push the buttons every day. This is one of those people, our society just wastes him.
I'm not trying to put the blame on him. I'm more trying to say that maybe he should be paid enough to afford housing and his job should provide sick days and maybe even Healthcare. This guy was grinding himself to death while putting others at risk just so he could get by. That's not his fault. He was doing what he needed to do to get by. It's messed up that he had to do that.
Despite what I said, I got that.
IDK, it was tone policing I should have phrased it better.
You to can work all your life and almost buy a house.
Worst part is he’s probably better off than most people working at Burger King since his restaurant is unionized.
You read the article as well. I was shocked the insurance is that good. I find articles like this a mixed bag. Good for him. Sounds like a hard working man. Sad that he had to have donations to buy a home.
-Work 27 years without a day off, following every advice to "stop being lazy and work"
-Still not being able to afford housing without generous donations
That Burger King should be ashamed of himself. He such a benevolent king.
Man we as a society should all pool our resources together so that things like this can be done on a much larger scale wouldn't that be cool
Instead of “gofundme” we should call it “taxes”
Ah, but what about ~~the economy~~ rich peoples yacht money
Bbbbbbbut but but but taxes could go to people other than me and gasp even other races!
No that's stupid. If we used the natural wealth of the planet to ensure a comfortable life for everyone, how would a small proportion of people live extravagantly without actually contributing anything? Don't you understand economics?
I like that idea. We build a community social system of shared resources - maybe even owned by the people working the jobs. Why has no one ever thought of it? I'm sure everyone in the world would get on board.
I never missed a healthy day of work in the past 22 years, i have called in sick a handful of times to prevent others from getting sick.
I worked 84h weeks, but mainly 40/45h weeks.
If i hadn't had my savings taken away at 17 i could have bought a house at 18, nowadays my labour isn't valuable enough to afford me a house.
So if anyone has a spare 500k laying around so i can buy a small house...i'd gladly receive it.
We could wait the extra 5 years but i'm afraid a small home will cost closer to a million then.
Gotta love this economy and all these fancy modern things we get to enjoy...if we can afford them.
Despite having health insurance I've lost my life savings three times now to medically necessary surgery that my insurance only covered a portion of. Insurance that cost a quarter of my income.
When I was in my twenties, I got a hernia. 16k out of pocket.
A bit later, a chair at work collapsed and I broke my wrist, workers comp paid for everything treatment wise including physical therapy, my wrist is still messed up, but workers comp showed me that actual medical care IS possible.
In my thirties, I broke both my ankles when I was knocked down some stairs on the way to catch a bus to work. I went to work, worked 6 hours on broken ankles and then took a bus to the hospital that decided my insurance would only cover one, and the other one was going to be mostly out of pocket. 12k out of pocket.
and then had a polyp on my vocal cord. Health insurance covered about 2000 of that leaving me with an 8k bill. My supplemental Aflac insurance covered the cost of a taxi (up to 40 dollars one way!) to the doctor for follow up appointments.
Now I can't walk right, can't lift shit, and can barely afford insurance, I need a follow up surgery for my hernia and I'm better off losing my job and going on medicaid than trying to keep a job and pay for it myself.
I'll be renting forever
"In our magnanimity, we let this worker drone pretend to belong to the real people who get to own stuff. Isn't it cute? Look at its widdle smile."
I wouldn't say the orphan crushing machine was stopped so much as one person was pulled off the conveyor.
I've opened the link thinking I would read an onion article.
How is the Onion supposed to survive when reality give us things like that ?
I cannot wait for the sweet release of death to overtake me
He got $440,000 from the GoFundMe.
And approximately $407,000 from working at Burger King for 27 years, if he worked at an average of the current minimum wage.
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