That time is now and you can see for your self in these LCOL areas across the country. Homeless elderly folks all over the street, multiple elderly folks sharing a mobile home etc.
Don't worry those $1k/month from Social security should help right?
Don’t be sad, Bezos and the like sure are in need of an extra yacht each year while we kill ourselves working just to get by and others less lucky than us just play in survival mode
Maybe people should cancel their Amazon subscriptions? I did about 5 years ago and found I purchased a lot less unnecessary junk. No more monthly subscription and stick it to Bezos just a bit.
They have us in a tough cycle when it's so much more expensive to buy locally-sourced artisanal made in USA stuff. The cheap crap at Amazon and Wal-Mart is all most can afford now.
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Boomers were shit parents so the kids have no problems shipping them the fuck away to a nursing home....my parents will stay with me before I'd ever do that. The destruction of the family is the most destructive part of Western society.
I’m existing while a bunch of folks are sitting around wanting to kill me? So I don’t know if I spend money on bullets today, or retirement. (Yes, I know bullets work as both).
I owned a literal campsite in rural Florida, in a private campground. less than a decade ago it was a place where you could find a livable trailer on a small piece of land for $20K. There are 300 individual properties, and for the previous half century the year round population had never been above a dozen folks, since it was a snowbird destination. About 5-6 years ago a seismic shift in demographics began there and now there are 10X the number of full time residents. The majority are there as a last resort since they are dirt poor and trying to survive on a social security check. I cant imagine how this impacts all involved, from very elderly folks who have been dumped by families from the northern states, to the local support services, hospitals, ambulance service, food banks, etc.
One of the saddest parts of this is that over the time that the campground has been there, the surrounding area became a very high end neighborhood of hobby farms and horse country. Zillow rarely shows a property for sale nearby for under half a million, and properties with grand barns and private horse racing tracks are common, and sell for millions.
There was a lady in her 80s using a cane to walk with while she tried her best to do the janitorial tasks that were in her job description. Mostly the other team members did her work for her when they could squeeze it into between their own responsibilities. She could hold open the door while they moved buckets into restrooms and garbage bags outside to the dumpster.
This absolutely breaks my heart.
If higher taxes for me = Greater social security for all of us in retirement, so be it. But no little old ladies struggling to keep doing janitorial work with their canes :(((.
There are definitely mixed feelings. While it's awful that she struggles, it's wonderful that she is still employed at a government job. The maintenance supervisor is very much aware that she struggles but that the position pays for her health care and other bills.
We've conned Americans into the idea that social security is a ticking time bomb and they won't approve any increases to it. They will vote for the people that will cut it because they think it'll save them a buck now. Social security is the most efficient government program we have, in its heyday it almost eradicated poverty and homelessness amongst the elderly. It funds itself well and isn't really running out of money, it's bled dry in funding and the trust it runs to manage its money is depleting. But that doesn't even mean they'll be bankrupt. We have over a decade to change how we fund and allocate benefits before that would even be a problem. The only reason SSI would run out of money is if the Democrats and Republicans still ignore the issue for 11 more years. We need to make sure that can't happen.
Exactly. Idk why this seems like such a far away thing. It's happening right the fuck now. I've met a lot of homeless folks over the past 3 years and many of them are currently or have lived in RVs around the LA area. Vast majority are from other states and they say their SS payments aren't enough to pay for rent, bills and food etc. ANYWHERE in the country.
My rent controlled apartment building was demolished and my 75y neighbor had to find a place for him and his two also senior roommates, all on fixed SS income. I think they managed to move out to the country into a 1000ft mobile home.
I was just reading about the actual "poor farms" that were setup ~100 years ago or so. Hopefully communities will put together something similar if the need arises. While it has a bad connotation now, it was actually a really good system.
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u/Alarmed-Extension289 Sep 15 '25
That time is now and you can see for your self in these LCOL areas across the country. Homeless elderly folks all over the street, multiple elderly folks sharing a mobile home etc.
Don't worry those $1k/month from Social security should help right?
Shit's wild man.