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degradation of society is caused primarily by rising wealth inequality, not knowledge work you donut

• deadbabe 2y ago
  Knowledge work disproportionately accumulates wealth.
• ForHackernews 2y ago
  You sure about that? https://www.brookings.edu/books/dream-hoarders/ https://www.brookings.edu/books/dream-hoarders/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/the-hoarding-of-the-american-dream/530481/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/the-hoa...
  • ikrenji 2y ago
    do you really believe that the middle class sending their kids to a nice school is more detrimental to society than wage stagnation for the past 50 years? https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/ https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/
    • ForHackernews 2y ago
      Where do you think all that money went? Pretending the top 20% are "the middle class" is part of the problem. Just because you don't have a private jet doesn't mean you aren't one of the rich ones.
      • ikrenji 2y ago
        it went to the top 1%? what's the point of making an argument if you don't even look at the data...