Thousands of people have donated about a quarter of a million dollars to a 90-year-old US air force veteran who has been financially supporting himself by pushing shopping carts at a grocery store in sweltering Louisiana – and now has the option of retiring if he wants thanks to the strangers’ generosity.

The story centers on Dillon McCormick, who is among a growing number of Americans to extend their working careers well past the average retirement age as the cost of living in the US has soared and most employees’ wages have stagnated over the years, preventing many from being able to save.

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    5 months ago

    I want to share this with some friends but i know that my 10 blue friends will say we need to make retirement available to everyone and my two red friends will make a comment about Biden and inflation.

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      5 months ago

      We need to first dislodge retirement from Wall Street, and make a law that social security cannot ever be used as any funding for anything but what it was designed for.