It took the effort of hundreds of people donating over a hundred thousand dollars, AND getting fired from Walmart over community backlash, that ONE PERSON was finally able to retire. Walmart has consistently been one of the absolute worst employers in the United States, matched only by Dollar General. Fuck Walmart.
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This is some kind of hunger games shit.
Wait for the tax bill. The government will NOT provide for you, NOT protect you from corporate exploitation, and then they will turn around and say you owe them money.
Well the American government will!
If they document it correctly, and assuming none of the individual donations were too big, this could all be exempt as a series of gifts.
You're right thank god.
It isn't just the Billionaires and corporations that are the problem. It's also basic human selfishness. Even those working and struggling often believe that it's perfectly fine to work for pennies while the C suits take advantage of them, because they are brainwashed into believing that as long as they "earned" their billionaire status they deserve to crap on the rest of us.
Every human deserves basic human rights!! We ALL should at least have housing and food and EVERYONE should be taxed according to their means, and yes that means the 1% should pay their shares too!!
Damn straight.
I'm so happy she was able to get that money and retire. But more so, this makes me absolutely fucking INFURIATED. FUCK THis country where 80 year olds have to work full time to not even be able afford anything still. Something needs to change. Prices are going to keep going up for AT LEAST 3 years, and you most definitely won't get a raise that matches it. I'm fed up with this place. Used to be proud to be an American a little bit at least but now it is a fucking embarrassment. Bunch of sorry ass pussies in the government.
Walmart likes to hire the elderly because Walmart gets a life insurance policy payout for every worker that dies.
Walmart was keeping her employed in hopes she would die so they could get money.
Life insurance payout for someone dying of old age? And why would it go to their employer?
You can actually take life insurance on whoever you want. That's what I learned with ours. I'm not entirely sure about Walmart business plan with that but yeah
Peasants insurance.
This is what happens when those in power don't know the difference between needs and wants. You must fight for what you need, we all understand that people have basic needs and we share a common goal in that respect. Billionaires don't know what it's like to need, so they're wants are their needs. They begin to believe their wants are more important than your needs because they can't differentiate between the two and once that happens they can excuse letting people work their whole lives and not even have basic needs.
That makes a lot of sense actually. I often ask myself how the 1% can be so disconnected from reality and that explains it perfectly
They know exactly what are needs and wants, but use it further the exploitation unquestioned with the help of our government. Their wealth accumulation is their only interest, and if it means people die, they couldn't care one bit on their 300ft yacht on the carribean. A united worker's movement is the only way we can fight back
In their minds you can easily obtain what you need by being like them. They cannot relate or understand that they've created a vacuum that removes most of the US dollar from circulation.
We can never know what they believe, but we can understand their actions, which are, furthering their accumulation of capital at any cost. The things is, they couldn't care one bit about you, or me, or our friends and family, and thus, we should organize ourselves against them with the same antagonism. The capitalist knows that their club is small and exclusive.
Very succinct.
I thought it couldnt be worse…
Walmart threatened to get the cops involved? Like... for what? They can fire him as a private business but why the f would the cops care?
And there are people genuinely saying that capitalists, who are responsible for this, have even an ounce of humanity left in them.
America
Only in America…
For every one vulnerable person like this who is saved from exploitation by random kindness, there are hundreds of thousands who are not.
They always say “just go to a church,” but the bazillion churches in the US aren’t providing like this. They are not structured and organized to do so anyway, and most do not have the will or inclination. They want to keep throwing table scraps. The need outstrips individual church ability.
Government policy matters. Values matter. Business practice/culture matters. Environment matters. Accountability and enforcement matter. This kind of poverty - both the breadth and depth of it - is utterly avoidable and it’s not just the individual’s fault. It’s not inevitable either. It’s a choice the country makes to allow this. It’s a choice being made over and over again.
I will forever be haunted by seeing a little old lady hobbling in obvious pain to her checkout station (no stool or chair, of course, the monsters) at a Lowes garden center. She was old and frail, moving slow, eyes dull and troubled; you know that horrible “dead inside” retail worker look after their souls have been well crushed and they’ve worked the worst week? This 80+ year old had that.
She seriously looked like she was about to keel over and die right there. It really disturbed me. No one seemed to notice or care. No one asked if she was okay. Not even me (mea culpa). I didn’t buy anything. I left. That situation shouldn’t exist.
Exactly my thought every time I see one of these "heartwarming" stories. It creates a survivorship bias of sorts, we only get to see the ones who got helped. How many people do not get any help so we don't see them?
Why would she even bother paying off the mortgage?
this doesn't fix any pay gap! I am frustrated that my peers earn around 3x less than I do, even though we graduated from high school the same year.