A TikToker raised nearly $170,000 for an older Walmart worker so she could pay off her mortgage and retire

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TikToker Dbon973_, actual name Devan Bonagura, recently shared a video on November 3 of a Walmart employee named Nola sitting by herself in the break area.Over the video, which has since had more than 24.1 million app views, he wrote in words, “Life shouldn’t be this hard.”Bonagura created a GoFundMe the same day for the worker after receiving encouragement from comments.“We are all super proud of you, and we wanted to offer you the $110,000 that has been raised for you.”“I’d accept it, but I’d still have to work until I get the other $60,000 paid off the house,” she told him, seemingly nonplussed at the donations raised.The house is keeping me from leaving my job.”For millions of American workers, retirement is not a given.However, detractors claim that documenting the plight of the poor and how they are helped by “acts of kindness” can dehumanise the subjects by emphasising only their perceived suffering and, while useful in the short term for raising money, oversimplifies the underlying causes of the social ills they portray."

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