Statistically though, most people use stories like these to feel like the world is doing just fine and they don't have to do anything about it. The headline should read something like "80-year-old man forced to work is saved only through the generosity of strangers, while thousands more like him go unnoticed"

This is that hole, it's closing not closed

It's only excusatory if we let it be excusatory. Celebrate human generosity while telling the robber barons at the top to go fuck themselves, is the way.

Nah, i dont need to google to know that those that eat from the gravy train enjoy every bit of it.

Enjoy your freebies while it lasts. Recession is coming.

I only have to pay like 400 for my apartment with a garden. That includes water, gas and electricity. I can do whatever I want with the rest of the 450. I also don't have to worry about my insurance, since the state pays it for me. No taxes for me, except I buy something, but we don't really care about that, because it's already included in the price.

And since I only live with my small ass dog, I think I can handle it.

It looks more like you don't know the cost of living in Europe, compared to the US, which I do know. Get more information on it, before you embarrass yourself even more. I'll mute this conversation now, since I don't have the obligation to tell you everything, that you could learn through Google and using your brain.

lol no. Reddit's irrational raging hate boner for tiktok won't be deflated that easily.

We did it Reddit!

Because the best thing you can do is work within that system to change things, they can only be fixed from the top down. The issue is, no matter how many people you get to donate, the issue is systematic and there are thousands and thousands more like him that will not get these, and they will die alone.

The more we spin stories like this as if they were a positive, the more toxic that positivity really becomes, because it's almost excusatory for the horror that brought it about in the first place.

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So we're supposed to be unhappy about this? How do you tolerate such a level of suffering? I can't.

Yes, we tear down the system. In the meantime, we find good by getting through and helping people who need it. Helping people who need it, after all, is and always will be the way.

Social sec in the US is $1600, 77% payout, eligiblity at 62 while holding 22% average income tax and 7% sales tax. It looks like Europe has lots of room to improve, not the other way around.

I live in Germany and can't work right now, I get like 850 a month. I have to pay for everything with that. I know what borderline poverty is.

Australia is saved now

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So many of these uplifting news stories I expect to be reading r/aboringdystopia posts instead

Wasn't there a hole in it at some point that's already closed up?

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Lord man… why do we not have any fucking mercy

This is not uplifting. We live in a fucking dystopia.

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My father is nearly blind after multiple bouts of Ischemic Optic Neuropathy, which irreparably damages the optic nerve. It’s nearly destroyed his quality of life over the last several years.

I know it’s not the same as the retina, but how I wish a miracle of modern science could help to restore my dads vision in the years he has left.

Very thankful for science like this, regardless.

THROUGH THE GATES OF HELL

depressing that 82 yo has to work (if he worked because he liked it - he probably wouldn't retire)