• Damage@feddit.it
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    3 months ago

    Uhmmm… At this point, what if you guys set up like a GoFundMe for everybody? Like you all agree to put a part of your wages into this common GoFundMe, which is a small cost all in all, and when the time comes, each worker gets their own payout! You could even have it pay monthly, to make sure that nobody can waste all their fund too early and end up destitute.

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      3 months ago

      We could call it “Social Security”. Before there was GoFundMe, there were taxes that could be used in a similar fashion for expenses society finds valuable.

      I’ll be the evil right wing swine here and say it out loud - I don’t expect you to be able to retire from a part time minimum wage job, but that’s also the reason we have ’safety nets’ that are supposed to ‘catch’ you in these cases. It shouldn’t be a surprise that you can’t retire from a McDonalds gig but don’t let your outrage redirect you from the “one in four adults do not have any retirement savings”, or the (implied?) social security is insufficient

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        3 months ago

        Uhm, if you’ve worked all your life, you deserve retirement, regardless of the job you held.

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          3 months ago

          There should be a safety net letting you have livable retirement regardless whether you’ve worked or how successfully. That applies both to this gentleman and the “one in four adults do not have any retirement savings”. My point is we should be more outraged about the lack of the latter

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      3 months ago

      We have a retirement pool at my job where when someone retires, everyone in the pool donates them an hour of pay.

      Not enough to live off of for the rest of your life, but it’s a nice little bonus. I think we’re at like 95% participation, too.

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        That’s kind of cool. Although with the turn over rate of how long most people stay at jobs these days I am shocked not more people have the jaded mentality of “why should I do this if I’ll never benefit from it myself”. Pretty cool that everyone just does the better thing for others.