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My God. You really live in a bubble and don't know how the other half of this country lives do you?
by thatboyz 4y ago
My God. You really live in a bubble and don't know how the other half of this country lives do you?
- __pache__ 4y agoHuh, what do you expect?
- ithkuil 4y ago> other half Flip that and you can argue that the first half (half!) of the population lives in a way that would be viewed as leisurely less than a century ago. If anything, that makes the polarization even bigger, because the other half has every right to ask "why not me" and resent. I think GP's comment however had a tone of "despite all those luxuries, people are actually wasting their lives", which is another angle to the whole situation.
- 1letterunixname 4y agoBoth are true. The "K"-shaped recovery post-pandemic only increased wealth disparities. Inflation further robbed average working people of purchasing power, effectively giving most people salary cuts in the form of soaring prices. Real purchasing power of the other 95% keeps falling. "Wealth Inequality in America" politizane The differences between 1. what people think wealth distribution looks like, 2. what people think distribution should be, and 3. what it is. These are 3 very different histograms. https://youtu.be/QPKKQnijnsM https://youtu.be/QPKKQnijnsM "How Wealth Inequality Spiraled Out of Control" Robert Reich https://youtu.be/wOI8RuhW7q0 https://youtu.be/wOI8RuhW7q0