Thousands of people have donated about a quarter of a million dollars to a 90-year-old US air force veteran who has been financially supporting himself by pushing shopping carts at a grocery store in sweltering Louisiana – and now has the option of retiring if he wants thanks to the strangers’ generosity.
The story centers on Dillon McCormick, who is among a growing number of Americans to extend their working careers well past the average retirement age as the cost of living in the US has soared and most employees’ wages have stagnated over the years, preventing many from being able to save.
While I applaud people for donating, each donation should come with calls to congress asking why on earth a 90 year old is forced to work to survive in our society. We should be ashamed
the elected feel no shame. its the new normal.
That’s such a great idea! A site where we can pay a dollar to annoy a politician and that dollar goes to someone who needs it!! Can you make that?!
Sure, I’ll call it Shittysins United
Share a link when it’s ready.
is there a c/OrphanCrushingMachine yet?
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There’s ABoringDystopia
Orphan crushing machine continues its implacable work
My… How American 🙈
We shouldn’t use charity to fix the system - we need to tax the rich into poverty.
At this point, that’s the moderate position. Expropriate their asses!
I pushed carts at a big box store for a year in my 20’s. Fucking sucked. In an 8 hour shift you could easily walk 20,000+ steps and walk over 10 miles (GPS verified). And you do it no matter the weather. Pouring rain? Out there. Sweltering heat? Out there. -5F and 6" of snow? Out there.
This work can be brutal, even for a young healthy person, let alone a 90 year old vet.
The worst part? I was paid the exact same wage as the cashiers who stayed inside the entire time. About $10/hr on average in 2017.I had my first minor heart attack pushing carts in the snow for Toys R US at 16. That was a brutal job for $4.75 an hour in 97.
Enjoy your two weeks of retirement, I guess.
Yeah was trying to game out how long you could stretch that out if you’re 90
I want to share this with some friends but i know that my 10 blue friends will say we need to make retirement available to everyone and my two red friends will make a comment about Biden and inflation.
We need to first dislodge retirement from Wall Street, and make a law that social security cannot ever be used as any funding for anything but what it was designed for.
Nobody should be working at that age. Heartbreaking.
Great to see from the donors.
