Late Stage Capitalism

Wealthiest country on earth

🤣 It's like putting one leg in boiling hot water, the other one in liquid nitrogen and calling it room temperature.

The US is a third world country with some very rich people.

Responsible Americans blow their brains out at 75. How dare she.

This happens BECAUSE it's the wealthiest country on earth.

We live in a time of larger wealth disparity than the times of peasants and kings.

The royals were also really wealthy as they said in ignorance "let them eat cake".

Why are we so worried about this woman when nobody seems to be worried about the 93 year old billionaire shareholder who won't be able to manipulate global geopolitical events in their final few years? They should be allowed to extract every ounce of value from our society that they bought fair and square . If you don't like the way things are then go buy your own society. Sheesh.

I feel weird submitting this knowing that even extream sarcasm isn't as obvious as it should be here in 2025

What makes anyone believe she's capable of surviving eviction? Oh right, they don't care if she dies.

You can't be 'the richest country in the world" if 40% of your citizens are in poverty. The US "gov" is corrupt and greedy. This place truly is a shithole...

If I were in that position I would do the same. Either they can't evict me or I get sent to prison and I would be kept warm and fed, rather than the streets where I would probably starve or freeze to death.

My grandad was told he’d have to give back his electric wheelchair due to some change in insurance.

He was like “let me know what day, so I can have the news here as your tip a 100 year old ww2 veteran out of his wheelchair”

They let him keep the chair.

Checked my mother's facebook and sure enough she's concerned about it. If there's one thing the elderly care about it's their social security checks. She still doesn't understand who is responsible though.

Every single assisted living facility in the United States would do the same thing. They are businesses designed to strip every last bit of wealth before we die, they do not give a shit about their ~~residents~~ customers.

I'd like to say im surprised but im not the yanks really have lost the bloody plot

This is what republicans seem to want. Thinking THEY will never be in such a situation so they have nothing to worry about.

The most disturbing part of this is, she made it to 93, and wasn't able to pay rent. Does America have no way to pay their retired and elderly people a living wage at the end of their life?

Like, she's not even just retired, she's elderly. The "Golden years" of wearing a diaper and needing a walker, kind of elderly.

Even if the charges were dropped and she was allowed to go home, the fact that it got to the point where she was hauled off to jail in an orange jumpsuit and cuffs should not have happened. Someone should have stopped and said, "are we really going to try to send a 93 year old to jail?" And that should have been where it stopped. Because that's not something you do to a 93 year old for missing a few rent payments.

America is cracked man. Should not have gotten there. What the actual fuck.

"refusing to leave"

Where, specifically, did they expect her to go? Being thrown out on the streets at 93 is effectively a death sentence.

America is insane.

I dont understand why you handcuff people who clearly are not a danger to anyone.

Trigger Warning: Now before anybody comments that I'm evil for this, I'm not saying I would do it, or that I condone it but that I would understand why someone would, and could totally see it becoming an issue. Especially with copycats and such.

That being said I could totally see people getting to the point of hopelessness and going out by suicide by cop, either directly going after police, or whatever mega-corp, or landlord or whatever they perceive to put them in that position. Obviously a 93 year old woman likely doesn't have the strength to pull a trigger but as this inequality issue continues to rise and more and more people are losing hope due to issues outside their control dangerous and scary things are likely to happen. Just like we never solved bullying and it led to school shootings, if we don't solve inequality, I'm afraid that mass shootings are going to go up.

It's funny how the person commenting is still saying unable to work as an argument. In what word a 93 able to work should be expected to... work?

So you mean they will house her only in a more expensive and more dehumanizing way.

Being Heartless is the de-facto standard in capitalism.

State spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to chase a nonagenarian out of her home over a four figure rent check.

All so some landlord can afford another wing on the McMansion

But being poor is a crime! She could have invested in crypto and gotten rich off of dumping it, but noooooo!

She had to "RrTiRe" and "EnJoY hEr wInTeR YeArS". Lazy layabout. She'll learn the value of HARDWORK once she's making license plates, and maybe then she can pull herself up by her bootstraps by investing those $2 a day and earning her keep in about- oh, say a 100 years?

People live to be 200, right? I don't know, I'm not good with numbers.

"heartless animals"

This is basically how I view the United States at this point.

I am American.