• cygnus@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    If 99 homeless people and Elon Musk are in a room, the average net worth of every person in the room is 2 billion dollars. Why aren’t all 100 happy about that?

  • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, people should be grateful everything is expensive as fuck and the planet is burning while the c-suites get more money than ever. A real accomplishment this good economy.

    How does this “economic growth” benefit me? That’s right, it does not.

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      2 months ago

      Except real wages are up the largest percentage for the lowest income brackets and the least for the highest.