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UNPRECEDENTED: Aging boomer retires to free up job for someone younger (www.thebeaverton.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I wonder why the down votes... Do we really have this many corpo democrats to be hurt by this obviously true statement?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Politically, most of the folks on Lemmy are pro-establishment, even if it means voting for someone who is in obvious cognitive decline. (Which until yesterday was both candidates.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

My guess is it's the tone/phrasing of the comment. They could've just said he has about 10 million bucks. Which imo is not an exorbitant amount of wealth to have accumulated for a (very...) senior citizen who has worked for >50 years in upper echelon functions.

The blanket statement about readers 'not being fine' because they don't have that kind of money also doesn't help.