That's because they've seized all the money.
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More significantly, a tiny chunk of them have seized the bulk of the money and other assets. The 90th percentile worker sees the insecurity that they'll experience with a job loss. Somebody in the top 0.1% is likely a rentier who can live off the rest of us and not care.
"Depends" is the wrong way to frame it.
Essentially, this means we're serving them.
I keep trying to explain, billionaires aren't the only issue. Stop looking up to millionaires, too. They're both ripping us off.
Don't ever go to bat for them unless you want to be a useful idiot.
The highest earning 10% also have about 67% of the wealth, so they are actually underperforming compared to the rest of the population. It's just that they have all the money.
Thanks for the number, do you have a link where you got it from? I suspected something like this might be the case, but I couldn't find a source easily online.
they are actually underperforming compared to the rest of the population
They always do, which is a big part of why the "FairTax[sic]" is such a scam.
And by "always," I mean literally without exception, because the difference between the working class and owner class is defined by it.
Just passing a bunch of money around at the top.
What's funny is, I guarantee all of these people will say without flinching, "I need more money."
Thank goodness for the rich. I’ve nothing against the poor but they’re such drag on my economy
They're literally trying to build an economy that starves regular people out of it. They don't care anymore, they want it all.
A whole ass country full of fucking Veruca Salts.
Well, there's 2 Verucas running the white House right now. I'm sure they care about fixing this issue.
What an insidious way to frame poverty and wealth disparity.
I cannot remember a time a headline filled me with such hatred and anger toward a person.
I hope Ms. Ensign gets exactly what she deserves.
Her WSJ biography REEKS of boot licking and discredited economic theory:
It's fitting imo, because they've stolen the wealth and think that Luigi's case is just a freak accident rather than the upcoming Bell Riots.
On a side note, I always figured the Bell Riots that were supposed to be back in September of our timeline were just a hair delayed and slightly miscalculated.
Maybe records became fuzzy due to the whole WWIII issue.
Maybe if you didn't fucking rob the other 90%, the numbers would be different.
$250K isn’t that outrageous of a household income (or at least it shouldn’t be); literally two good white collar jobs would reach that point in the coastal cities.
The bigger thing at issue is to not frame it as 90% vs 10%, it’s literally 99% vs 1% — if not 99.9% vs. 0.1% if we are really talking about the ‘disconnected from reality wealthy’.
That’s the line that the wealthiest amongst us are trying to draw, in order to build class disunity. A white-collar household pulling in $250K has a lot more in common with a blue-collar household pulling in $65K, than they do the oligarchy above them.
As someone who has lived both experiences, you are absolutely correct.
It's not really robbing when the useful idiots are proud to give up their wealth and power.
Look at all the dumb shit people subscribe to that they could be getting for free. Look at all the dumb shit they waste their money on (like doordash) while complaining they need more.
It's a cultural problem, and the average worker is proud to be a part of it.
Whenever you suggest they could be doing something differently, like using free streaming sites instead of netflix, they will look at you like you're worse than a pedophile because you dared to suggest they're wasting money.
The average worker has no choice but to funnel their money up the wealth chain through rent and mortgages. That's the bulk of it.
BECAUSE! They.Stole.all.the.MONEY!