Mr. Mercat and I have met some of them. They have free medical care, practically free room and board and seem generally content.
Another story about people making poor life choices.
Seems like I saw this same article some time ago. Same desperate headline. Some of those people have spent their whole lives basically on the road, following The Dead or some other motley crew.
What needs to change to prevent people from having to become Nomads or to help them live better if they are?
For one thing, Amazon should pay its workers more and give them better working conditions.
I'm actually very sympathetic to workers who are losing ground or in a bad, hopeless situation. But we have robots because humans are not cost effective. Paying workers more is a losing proposition.
Lonely older Americans is nothing new.
Back in 1961 I had a part time job in a large hospital in Iowa. I observed so many older people who received
no visitors.
And that explains how Amazon keeps getting more and more applications every year, how?
We have friends who have been working for Amazon every year for six years now and going back again this fall, and they’re now in their 70’s.
This same article has appeared at least twice on other websites over the last few months. It’s probably a good thing that more older Americans become aware of this likely outcome if you don’t plan or make some kind of preparation for the later years. My landlord allows me to rent out the second bedroom because he knows I pay rent on time, and keep things relatively clean and quiet. For now, that is my Elder-Plan.
Now it has become tedious.
Amazon offers benefits in their warehouses from day one. But they burn their workers out in a few months and have an extremely high turnover.
i think i saw some of these people over Christmas Vacation !!
“Interesting article especially about how Amazon exploits workers. “
Boy, did you ever get sucked in!
With the Keystone Pipeline going into full swing soon, there will be nomads galore (rich ones).
It is a repeat article, btw.
I’m a Nomad. I roam between the Bedroom, the Bathroom, the Kitchen and the Family Room. Not necessarily in that order.
A lot of these nomads were financially destroyed during the Obama adminisration. I don’t know any nomads but I do have a number of friends who lost homes and have no way of recovering from the catastrophy. They are just too old.
This happened in the Reagan administration too. As soon as Reagan and Trump were elected, the press suddenly discovers homelessness and desperate people.
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Amazon is easily the most malevolent company on Earth.
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I find it hard to believe people forget that most people in America before the 1920s and socialist-led unions and socialist politicians courting the womens votes, created welfare government, lived lives like this. seasonal work. went to places where there was work. had jobs that had little other benefits. didnt have cushy retirement plans, because basically no one retired because they couldn’t. It was called “life”.
These people are working. They are doing what they can. Not everyoene can collect a hundred grand paycheck for doing unskilled or semi-skilled jobs.
These people also do not have hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt from college they have to pay back hoping to get a job in their career field, or purchase masively expensive personal liability insurance in case they are sued doing their highly skilled work.
Much of the rest of the world still lives “life” this way.
Since I RV, I have seen this article pop up on occasion. There is a small minority that does go from job to job and paycheck to paycheck. But then there are a lot more of them that work hard, then play hard. They actually choose this lifestyle with little responsibility and a vagabond attitude.
This article paints the RV lifestyle as one where the individual is homeless. Many of us do have an S & B (stick and brick) home in addition to our RVs. And for those of you that have never seen the inside of an RV, the new ones are more like a luxury apartment than those RVs from the past. And even some of the older ones are being rehabbed to a point of beauty.
And don’t even get me started on the motorhomes. Some of the motorhomes that are coming off the assembly lines cost over a half a million dollars to custom models that run up to and over 2 million.