• Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
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      “upliftingnews”: this 85 year old woman who is taking care of her orphaned great grandchildren had to get 6 jobs at mcdonalds to pay for rice and beans, but she works 21 hours a day with a smile!

      And the picture is a broken person hiding behind a pained mask struggling to lift a paper bag to hand someone their oh-so-important happy meal.

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    At my job we got one guy who is 75+ and can barely move around. The CEO and a few others are also hitting their 65s. But it’s just a handful. The other people are already dead so they can’t work. So si totally agree with that sentiment.

  • BeautifulMind ♾️@lemmy.world
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    And yet, the dominant narrative as their elders crowd them out of jobs, is that young people these days don’t want to work

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    Many of these old farts don’t go back to work because they need the money. It’s because their greed is unbound.