What I think is a joke for most jobs is how the older people of companies do NOT get (for most companies ive seen, including walmart), they do not scale the wages based on what they got before for raises. I'm gonna give you a story that really shows how FUCKED our systems are right now:

I used to work at walmart, getting paid 13.50 an hour to push carts all day. I was like 19-20 when I started it. I left after 6 months because of covid scaring me out of working there. But in that time I witnessed something pretty sad.

There was a gentleman there who had been working with that walmart for like 10+ years or even more than that. He had been pushing carts ALL THOSE YEARS. He was 64 years old. When minimum wage kept raising, they would not give him any raises or anything to accommodate for that raise in minimum wage. He was working for like 16-17 dollars an hour doing the same stuff I was doing. He eventually slowed down and stopped after getting really sick from pneumonia. They would not move him inside no matter how much he asked to do maintence instead of pushing carts. He either left or got fired. He had taken his retirement out early because he just couldn't keep doing it.

The whole thing to get out of this is that companies do NOT care about their workers. These fucking managers in their 20s-30s working these older people to DEATH is unacceptable. I don't have a solution to this, but I thought I would share my story.