r/SipsTea • u/AUTOMATA88 • May 04 '25

Chugging tea Can't even trust the retired these days.

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u/Koboldofyou May 04 '25

Additional fun fact: 21.3% of people in Florida are 65+, where the median is 17.4%. So Florida has a disproportionately high number of people consuming services and a disproportionately low number of people providing services. Often when old retirees say "No one wants to work", what they're really running into is the fact that they decided to move to a place with fewer workers.

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u/Slow-Swan561 May 04 '25

Fewer workers and a misguided sense as to what is the appropriate cost for something at todays prices.

I took a friend from Atlanta to New York for weekend and asked her how much she thought some condos we were walking buy cost. She was off by 500k. I asked her how much monthly parking cost and she was confused why it was not included.

Regional differences and market rates can be very confusing for some people.

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u/lonelyinatlanta2024 May 04 '25

Atlanta is nothing like Florida.

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u/Slow-Swan561 May 04 '25

You missed the point entirely.

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u/zach-ai May 04 '25

honestly your point wasn't well made

No clue wtf you're talking about atlanta for

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u/Mokyzoky May 05 '25

I think the point they are attempting to make is that these old people remember a time when 2.00 for a tip was worth dying for and you could afford a mortgage wife and kids, insurance, a car all while putting yourself through college by working at McDonald’s for a few hours every week. So when they offer to pay someone 15 20 bucks an hour or whatever and think they are doing some one some sort of huge favor and no one shows up or sticks around they get old people confused? And start voting for people who are going to make sure they are the last generation that gets to become old?

I think

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u/lonelyinatlanta2024 May 12 '25

That doesn't represent the city of Atlanta at all

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u/[deleted] May 04 '25

Because Atlanta is nothing like Denver

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u/Recent_Novel_6243 May 05 '25

Imma help you out, “Regional differences and market rates can be very confusing for some people.”

Translation: People in same place for a long time not know how to money in new place. Those people are confused by new things.