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Donors raise $233,000 to give US cart pusher, 90, chance at retirement
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2024
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Is expecting his life to contain such excesses as to afford a retirement plan more than victim-blaming? It's hard to monday-morning quarterback a lifetime of decisions made in each moment and staying objective while knowing essentially the future for each one.
What if the voices second-guessing every decision we ever made were mutterings from a future society which has the ability to go back in time and doesn't realize we can hear the spectators?
You can try to paint me as a victim blamer all you want. I tried to make it clear that I legitimately wonder. I empathize with his situation, and I bet he would be open to share his stories, cautionary or otherwise, and not act like you are.
Can't tell whether the down-votes are from people who DO like to blame people when their lifetime of choices paint them into a neveretirement corner, or just people who've traveled back in time trying to silence me. I WILL NOT BE SIL