He should just die and get out of the way?
No, what a stupid thing to say. What he should do is look for ways to increase his value to whoever he works for. In any way possible.
The problem is, not everybody has the mental or physical capacity to do what you think ought to be done.
As I'm typing this, there is a story on tv going in downstairs about kids with autism. They turn 21, are being kicked out of school and the only thing left is Socialist Security, Medicare, Medicaid, for the balance of their lives. So, you'd rather pay millions of people to, essentially do nothing, when they could be minimally productive if an employer would pay them something for their time???
If Socialist Security Disability pays as much as the job, ummm.... which will these people choose?
I don't think there is an easy answer on this. There is no definable term as a livable wage, but as I said before, if someone cannot meet a community's standard, the local government is not obligated to issue a business license if all the company can pay is slave wages. Let the locals figure it out.
There is such a thing as Supplemental Security Income, not sure how that differs from SSDI. Don't think it pays as much as a job, but I don't think so. I don't know jack about it, but I'd favor that over being permanently unemployed, cuz I think there's something unhealthy for those who can work but aren't up to the tasks that might be required. I would suggest that in many if not most cases those with somewhat diminished abilities can do something. It could be temporary or permanent if warranted. But I'd rather see people working and earning something even if it's not enough to live on.
Supplemental Security Income
I am fine with local and state gov'ts deciding what the minimum wages should be. It's a jobkiller IMHO and they'll pay for it if they make bad decisions, but I do not think the federal gov't ought to have any say at all in it.
Yeah, everybody has an easy answer; however, all those government programs were looked at and they came up short. NONE of them provided enough money for the mildly disadvantaged to really have anything except a meager existence - not even what you would consider a life.
That was but one segment of our society. Let's face facts:
The United States has more people in prison than any nation on this planet. Even
if they manage to get out, they carry with them a
permanent criminal record and are locked out of society. We would be better off to liquidate those people rather than to keep playing this game. They are statistics employed by political propaganda prostitutes to falsely accuse foreigners of "
stealing jobs." That is impossible anyway since a job belongs to the person that created it.
We are a society that has laws that prohibit hiring the older workers, but they aren't enforced. The old people don't have an NAACP, ADL, MPAC or CAIR. Again, instead of resolving the real, underlying issue, we are ignoring it. It's more popular to blame and scapegoat.