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Your politicians failed you. You vote for them, and you feel good if they win. But then what happens? Nothing. The rich keeps getting richer. While the poor s
by blackrock 6y ago
Your politicians failed you.
You vote for them, and you feel good if they win. But then what happens? Nothing.
The rich keeps getting richer. While the poor stays poor. And the middle class becomes poorer.
The elites just wants to make more money. And what do they do? They buy out the politicians, in order to keep themselves rich.
And what’s the biggest lie that they’ve sold you?
That trickle-down-economics works for everyone.
- esoterica 6y agoWho is the "you" here? Given that this is a tech focused website, I bet a lot of people on here have done very well in recent years. Hard to consider the 20- and 30- something year olds making $500k/year at a FAANG or a few million dollars when the unicorn they work for IPOs an oppressed class.
- cratermoon 6y agoAnd yet they are. Petite bourgeoisie and all that.
- l3v3ll 6y ago20- and 30- somethings at FAANG is hardly a picture of America as a whole. Also if 20- and 30- somethings ignore the rest of our neighbors in other fields because “F you got mine”, we’re hardly better than the elitists.
- catawbasam 6y agoBetter than the elitists? They are the elite.
- l3v3ll 6y agoHa! I was going to edit my post with exactly that, that is correct. 500K/year is probably top 2%?
- ryandrake 6y agoThe elite are not the ones making a tech salary and spending 1/4 of it on their rent. The elite are the few who are writing those tech salary paychecks.
- l3v3ll 6y agoAgreed. The difference between the top .01% and top 2% is many magnitudes larger than the difference between those 2% and the other 98%. (Sorry no source.). But both seem to contribute to the increasing inequality.
- esoterica 6y agoI bet the people making $7.25 an hour would consider the $500k/year FAANG crowd pretty elite. Also if you own enough tech stock then you are also kind of writing the paychecks.
- detaro 6y agoThat's a small part even of the people here.