return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 11 months agoA staggering 80% of American households are financially worse off than they were before COVID-19finance.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square171fedilinkarrow-up1923arrow-down111
arrow-up1912arrow-down1external-linkA staggering 80% of American households are financially worse off than they were before COVID-19finance.yahoo.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square171fedilink
minus-squarehperrin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up100arrow-down2·11 months agoNow ask the CEOs how they’re doing.
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23arrow-down1·11 months agoMan, some of them have had to delay that second private jet purchase until next year.
minus-squarePatches@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10·edit-211 months agoMost of them got richer. So no they did not put off anything. About $42 trillion in new wealth was created in the first two years of the pandemic. Two-thirds of that has gone to the richest 1% of the world’s people https://www.marketplace.org/2023/01/16/how-the-worlds-richest-people-became-much-richer-during-the-pandemic/
Now ask the CEOs how they’re doing.
Man, some of them have had to delay that second private jet purchase until next year.
Most of them got richer. So no they did not put off anything.
https://www.marketplace.org/2023/01/16/how-the-worlds-richest-people-became-much-richer-during-the-pandemic/