PurrLure

Yeah I'm sure an 82 year old will definitely be able to physically work a full-time job at the same salary he had before he retired.

In fact, I'm absolutely positive being retired for 15 years wouldn't affect getting hired or keeping up with modern technology at all. Stay at home moms famously have no issues getting right back into the work force for great pay after the kids are grown and their ex-husbands leave them for someone a decade younger. I don't see what the big deal is???

As leftists you do realize our ultimate aim is to improve the material conditions of the working class right?

That he can afford this year. He'll be stuck on 28k/yr until the day he dies. Consider how much rent has gone up since 2020. How long do you think he'd be able to afford living if rent keeps going up at the rate it has lately? Much less other bills like groceries.

And you might be thinking "Oh, well he can just go to one of those rent controlled 55+ places", but even those go up eventually, and quite frankly I'm not sure if there are enough of them for all the elderly baby boomers in this country.

I think this might be a classic case of hating the player instead of the game.

And what happens when they turn 82 years old?

Assuming your time of death is a serious gamble in a country with such few safety nets.

This is how I got my current job. They advertised it as temp, but it turned into a full-time contractor job where the company keeps us around for years but refuses to actually hire any of us and give us the standard paid time off and other benefits.

Is it ideal? No. But it beats retail by a long shot.

My partner and I generally try to pick it up ourselves so that we can give everything a quick double check, but yeah, even then it's not like we're tasting it before we go, so this shit can still happen. A recent example: we got takeout from a regularly visited pizza place to celebrate a new job, and while the pizzas looked nice, when we got home we found out they were thin and floppy as fuck. We found out the hard way that they only give you thicker crust when you order a specialty pizza like one with a calzone built in.

We try to go to the vegan places around us since in the last couple of years, veganism hasn't been as trendy (to the average treatler, I don't treat it like a trend myself) and vegan places generally have to keep their quality and quantity up to prevent going out of business. Several places around us that tried to downsize or raise prices have already closed down. A couple even reverted to food trucks since the costs are lower and customers tend to have lower standards while not really having to lower prices all that much.

Twisted fucked up cycle path.

"Tell you what Bawby, back in mah day, we used to type the main topic of our homework on wikipedia, paraphrase the best quotes, and then copy and paste the citation links for those quotes into the same citation generator the teacher would recommend in the class syllabus. Gosh darn kids don't even know how to bullshit their work enough for an overworked public school teacher to give it a B-."