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Yeah and if you make US median income you’re in the top 0.3% of worldwide income. I don’t see all these people giving away to the bottom 99.7%, hahaha.
by renewiltord 11mo ago
Yeah and if you make US median income you’re in the top 0.3% of worldwide income. I don’t see all these people giving away to the bottom 99.7%, hahaha.
- harimau777 11mo agoI'm not sure that's actually all that relevant. Political power and social class are much more determined by the wealth distribution within a society than they are by the worldwide wealth distribution.
- parineum 11mo agoPolitical power and social class don't feed hungry people.
- aeternum 11mo agoOvereating now kills more people than hunger, it just flipped somewhat recently.
- s1mplicissimus 11mo agoYet both can be at alarmingly high rates at the same time, it's not like one cancels the other out
- renewiltord 11mo agoThis story is literally about global wealth.
- imtringued 11mo agoAnd you talked about income, not wealth. The problem is that your comment is simply not relevant.
- Libidinalecon 11mo agoThe responses to your post just prove the point. It is always someone else that is greedy. My American friends and I? It doesn't make sense. We are just trying to get by!
- Lutger 11mo agoIt is and it isn't. Relative wealth within society has consequences regardless of absolute wealth. But globally power is absolutely shaped by wealth distribution as well, as wealth distribution is influenced by power relations too.
- scotty79 11mo agoPeople with median US income probably gave away more than the people above them because they are losing their purchasing power for decades. What they gave away was immediately scooped up by the very rich, with very little going to people below them.
- imtringued 11mo agoIf you paid attention then you would notice that the article isn't about income. You can have top 0.3% worldwide income and still have massive student loans to pay off. Someone who is using all their income to pay off student loans is "giving away". Someone in a capital city can be living paycheck to paycheck, spending all of their money due to high rent. Meaning they're "giving away", except not to people poorer than them. They're giving away to people richer than them, so the last part is somewhat correct, but it's not funny so why are you laughing?