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UNPRECEDENTED: Aging boomer retires to free up job for someone younger (www.thebeaverton.com)

submitted 3 months ago by DxK@lemmy.world to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world -5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Biden has an eight-figure fortune.

He'll be fine.

You won't, because you're not part of that club.

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I wonder why the down votes... Do we really have this many corpo democrats to be hurt by this obviously true statement?

[–] jwt@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago

My guess is it's the tone/phrasing of the comment. They could've just said he has about 10 million bucks. Which imo is not an exorbitant amount of wealth to have accumulated for a (very...) senior citizen who has worked for >50 years in upper echelon functions.

The blanket statement about readers 'not being fine' because they don't have that kind of money also doesn't help.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Politically, most of the folks on Lemmy are pro-establishment, even if it means voting for someone who is in obvious cognitive decline. (Which until yesterday was both candidates.)