Lots of people cared.
The 1% didn’t.
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circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
I rememeber when “the 1%” was a thing. It wasn’t that long ago.
And no one really cared. The rich just do want they want and entire countries just spend and spend and pretend like a Balenciaga T-shirt that took them 100 hours of labor to afford is worth mountains of systematic injustices.
I’m so tired of this timeline.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The issue with “the top 1%” term is that most people can name 100+ people, so it feels as though being in that group is attainable.
Especially when you realise that in the US, there would be ~3.3m 1%’ers.
The reality is that we should be focusing on the top 1% of the top 1% of the top 1% (~330 US individuals); the top 0.0001% - if you will.
They hold outsized political and economic power; you are not part of that group, you will never be part of that group, and they can/will squeeze you for every penny they can.