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- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Curious why you made the distinction about real personal income when it is also rising. I agree wealth inequality is rising but not that it is coming at the expense of real personal incomes.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
The long-term trend is that the average person’s income is rising but we’ve seen recent declines due to high inflation. Can you expand on your line of thinking? I’m not sure I follow your reasoning.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Most households living below the poverty line have at least one unemployed person, so giving people jobs is pulling them out of poverty. Whether or not they are treated fairly at work and are satisfied with their working conditions is another story.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
My parents never could’ve either but $500k household net worth only puts you in the top 20% of households so it’s not like they were exceptionally wealthy and we don’t know if they borrowed to invest or what exactly their specific situation was. Miguel Bezos was a Cuban refugee and then worked as an engineer for Exxon and Jackie Bezos was a secretary so i mean this is pretty middle class IMO.
That doesn’t mean that all billionaires clawed their way to the top as i mentioned above, or that we shouldn’t make progressive changes to the tax code. It’s just important that we separate truth from fiction to make educated decisions.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Howard Schulz grew up in a Brooklyn Housing project, George Soros survived the holocaust survived college waiting tables, David Murdock of Dole Foods was homeless. There’s tons of examples.
- Comment on The Fediverse is Not The Future of The Internet. 1 year ago:
Probably on a per capita basis but we are all contributing to climate change (the majority of it): epa.gov/…/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data
Do you have a source?