This is actually an older news story, and it does appear as though she recovered from this before her death.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14389544

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[–] 138 points 2 years ago (2 children)

the system loves cruelty

criminalizing poverty and brutalizing criminals is what spins the wheels of capitalism

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Our fault for not being born into rich families, I guess? :\

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    No, no, no; if you work really hard and really apply yourself, you too can become a titan of industry and make your billions of dollars. If you aren't at least a millionaire, it's because you are just too dumb and lazy to succeed. Go back to school, work longer hours, read more books, get better ideas. In the meantime, I'm hungry, flip my burger faster, and what do you mean you want more than $7.25/hour, it's not like this is a real job.

    The biggest /s imaginable.

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    [–] 120 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Look the law is the law and police have to enforce the law. Except for their friends and family or city officials. Or if they just don't feel like enforcing the law. But other than that the law is the law!

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  • [+] 68 points 2 years ago (1 child)
  • [–] 68 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Depends on if she was mentally competent or had competent representation looking out for her.

    It's extremely easy for a 93 YO to fall between the cracks, even with loving family trying to look out for you, because there's an army of predators looking to take advantage of the feeble elderly, plus the habits of individuality that many elderly cling to instead of asking for help.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    And even if she had someone mentally competent, the system can be so convoluted it is easy to miss benefits you qualify for OR, and this is a big one no one talks about, have trouble getting approved for these things in a timely manner that is actually help when they need it. Sorry, it might take 6-24mo for you to get that help.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    It takes a lot of human labour to process those applications and organize resources, just being able to get through to someone on the phone to talk about it is hard enough then you have to explain your situation which for someone elderly or with mental health considerations can be difficult, then the call gets passes to someone with more specialist knowledge or authority which again takes, time normally days, and that's assuming you know what you need and where to ask.

    Having someone that actually knows all about the options available and who can make early assessments then-and-there would be a life saver for so many of the most at risk. With ai that's very possible, obviously not current gen LLMs but as we perfect specialized models with verification and tasking steps they'll get ever more useful for getting people the help and access to resources they need.

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  • [–] 67 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "But then people would just want to be old and disabled in order to not pay their rent."

    • A Republican, probably
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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    She should've made more money and saved more when she was younger.

    Best regards,

    Capitalism

    /s

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Must have been an avocado toast addict.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No, she's from the generation that did buy diamonds, and this is how they treated her. She could've afforded rent if she hadn't wasted all her money on stupid shiny rocks. This is why we're smart for not doing that. /s

    This is just how dismissive and callous it is when similar things are said about millennials and zoomers. I feel bad for her. I'd rather be dead than homeless after like 60 years old. At 93, she literally couldn't survive a week on the streets, and that suits the capitalists just fine since she's just a net negative number on their spreadsheet, and their entire goal is to maximize that number.

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago (53 children)

    decommodify housing already. wtf is wrong with people.

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    [–] 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    America has great public housing, free meals and they even provide everyone with a job. I just don't understand why residents need to wear those funny orange suits.

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    [+] 41 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    Cruelty is the point. Keep people subservient, keep them worried for their own life and the lives of their loved ones.

    You're less likely to complain about work requiring 20 hours of unpaid overtime if that means you can't put food on the table for your family.

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    [–] 38 points 2 years ago

    Can’t you see how shareholders are suffering here? Have a heart!

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    Sort of the joke in Western countries. We took all the absolutely critical domestic infrastructure that we all agree needs to be funded and we all rely on to exist and passed it off to the most greedy sociopath assholes we could find.

    Now we're shocked to discover that our planes crash and our retirement homes price gouge and our tech companies just do fake money scams to the tune of $2.5 trillion dollars. Our local sports teams are all run by a big casino. Our universities are all run by sports team owners. Our domestic energy companies keep getting pranked by the fake money scammers, while complaining that environmentalists just made the price of natural gas go vertical. And our health care system is six hedge funds in a set of doctor's scrubs.

    But when push comes to shove, if you ask an American why this country seems to be circling the drain, the answer is some combination of "Woke Communist Joe Biden put transgenders in charge of the military industrial complex" and "Cheeto Mussolini Donald Trump gave Putin/Xi the sticky note with all our passwords on it, right after Barack Obama had fixed everything."

    You'd never even know Blackrock Financial, Goldman Sachs, Citadel Advisors, and Berkshire Hathaway exist, much less why they have more control over the global economy than any two dozen elected officials you could name.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago

    And the people that did it went right back into the office the next day prob saying "oh I feel so sorry for her anyways what we getting for lunch?"

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    But shareholder value!

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    'MURICA !!! WOOHOO!! FREEEEEEEDOMMM!

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    As conservatives applaud...

    Conservatism is a fucking plague of oppression, misery and death that targets the most vulnerable first. It needs to be eradicated and innoculated against.

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    I mean, that is capitalism. It's good, no? No?

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    I'd argue that if you do that your not even a human being worthy of basic human rights. That landlord and those cops should just die lol

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    but Jebus or something is what they love down there in Florida!

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    That's so sad, i cannot imagine myself growing old in such a corrupted country.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    While no politicians have actual hearts, opting to have them replaced with mechanical pumps and dark magic, the ones down in the south do enjoy devouring them - preferably while still beating.

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