Systemic Failure Exposed..
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Exactly this. It’s heartbreaking that someone who served their country has to rely on strangers’ kindness to retire. System fail.
PS stop donating money at grocery stores or any other retail places. That money is tax deductible to the corporations but never goes to charity. Donate directly to your intended place or purpose. If corporations really cared… they wouldn’t collect your money to donate- they simply would.
90 year old vet needing to work is a sin, period.
Capitalist Dystopian Nightmare Rebranded as Heartwarming Bullshit
“What Swensen and the thousands of people who donated to the GoFundMe may not have anticipated is that McCormick would choose to keep working, even with all the donations.”
Ok here’s a question, does he need to work or does he want to?
Don’t worry, under the Trump administration they will just prefer you die when you retire
Obviously we don’t know the life circumstances that brought this person to working at that age but it’s not right. This reminds of this one time I bought something off Amazon and when I went to retrieve my package from my front door and I saw the delivery driver and I was in disbelief because the woman looked only a few years younger than my own grandmother… after thanking her I went back in and felt shitty and cried to my wife about it. What a fucked up world we live in..
You’re assuming a 90-year-old veteran working is not itself an anomaly.
It’s insane that we celebrate strangers helping him retire instead of being angry that the system failed him in the first place.
Nobody should have to work when they’re over 65, but how many years did he serve? You don’t get full retirement for 3 years of service for example.
This is everywhere. My father is retired and now does gig work to sustain their finances. When they cut social security, idk what going to happen. I’m too poor to help them.
Thanks, America! 🇺🇸
Can the media please stop trying to make the most dystopian awful depressing stories seem like there some feel good hope posting. I mean who genuinely dumb enough to fall for this anymore.
Too many assumptions here. We don’t know the full story. Maybe he wants to keep himself busy? I hate that we tend to assume things without knowing the facts to make ourselves look good.
Which multimillionaire CEOs are responsible for this?
The fact that you have to prove that you are worthy of living by continuous economic output or wealth is utterly barbaric and needs to be deposed.
The rest of us are duped by rich people into thinking this is a good thing. This is the ultimate failure. Sad
With RFK coming in as our new head of Dept. of Health I bet we see an Euthanasia end of life pill made available to the public. Because it’s cheaper then social services like medicare and Social security which they are going to cut some benefits too… oh and good bye to the Dept. Of VA hospital it to will be gone.
Well with the simple greed of most people what did you expect from your society?
I love how people here assume he did not prepare financially or squandered his money. That is just a smokebomb people. Just like the argument that he is a veteran.
People fuck up, big time. Is it their fault? Doesn’t matter.
That is exactly what social security is for
People get to an age at which they are to old to rely on their health for an income. Should they have been “responsible enough” to have bazillions of dollars for every kind of illnes imaginable? No.
That is exactly what social security is for
I’d like to know the details. I would think this man should have SS, maybe a military pension, and some retirement income from whatever he did for a living all his life. My dad has all three of those and has a comfortable retirement.
Combined with the worship of a man who’s wealth is 400 bil. Ya thats a broken system.
One of my coworkers literally worked until her death, and I don’t know if she had plans or the ability to retire.To clarify, she died at home, not work, but it was literally one day of “hmm Edith isn’t in, did she call out?” And the next day it was “hey they found Edith dead in her apartment, funeral is in a week.” Now, I had only met her like twice in person, but it was distressing how blasé management was about cleaning up her desk and finding a replacement. We’re just wage slaves/worker drones. When one of us dies, the biggest thorn in management’s side is that they have to hire someone new to replace us.
Class warfare is an option. The .01% have been on a war footing for over a hundred years.
Yeah veterans should get lifetime pension (for themselves not spouse or children).
Maybe he was just really shitty with money.
Don’t worry
When Trump cuts his benefits and enacts his tarrifs he’ll be working again. Probably voted for him to boot