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10-year-olds found working at McDonald’s until 2 a.m. (www.axios.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only way to retire now is to have started working when you were 7.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unless health issues you inevitably accumulate due to this will kill you first

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

And then your funeral bankrupts your loved ones

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It's a free country ...... as long as you can afford it

[–] NutWrench 4 points 1 month ago

Remember this the next time Forbes publishes some feel-good article about how "household income is keeping up with inflation."

A few decades ago, only a single wage earner was needed to keep up with inflation. Now the "household income" includes everyone in it except the family dog. So financially, you might be keeping up, but the quality of life for everyone in the household is going down.