Comment on Top 1% Hold $60.3 Trillion, Bottom 50% Just $4.3 Trillion: Market Commentator Says 'the Middle Class Is Gone'

Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Miaou@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  It’s funny how American media is always talking about the economy yet they seem to have zero economic literacy

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• thinkingofyouihaveananxietydisorder@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  you’re trying to contrive a way this could be okay. an angle you could look from where you won’t are how terrifying and atrocious this is.

  I’ll sell you the drugs that can make it possible.

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• seat6@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah; that was my thought too. I don’t disagree that the middle class in trouble; but this post doesn’t address 49% of the population

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How the concept of “middle class” implies income is distributed:

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  How income is actually distributed:

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  • MycelialMass@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think you need labels and explanations for theses

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