When we’re talking about a socialist politician “almost half don’t support”
When we’re talking about the working class “bottom 60% are struggling”
I see what’s going on here. What a world…
The American Dream, minus 60%
Submitted 3 weeks ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to workreform@lemmy.world
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wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
If you accept that society is pyramid-shaped, it’s easy to accept ideas such as a “bottom 80%” (the hideous peasants who do all the jobs you wouldn’t touch) and to imagine oneself as in the “top 20%” if you have a comfortable home, don’t go hungry and have enough to treat yourself to discretionary luxuries like a Netflix subscription. Yes, the private-jet class may be far above you, but your little perch on the side of the pyramid keeps you out of most of the muck.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
inverted pyramid? ready to tumble?
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
America is a country for only richwhitemen. Everyone else is just fodder.
Makhno@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dont need to racialize it. Plenty of rich PoS PoC
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s already racialized. About few hundred years too late to avoid that.
RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I suspect that 60% is gonna grow to a 90% rapidly in the coming years.
jj4211@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Obviously, we aren’t giving billionaires enough wealth to create jobs.
save_the_humans@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Yeah, and besides that, they’re smarter and more innovative and creative than the rest of us. So, either way, they deserve it.
Without them we could end up with socialism where people might even have democratic control over their workplaces. And of course that would be much worse. For instance, cooperatives are only better in theory, wait, and in practice…
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
We only need to organize twelve million Americans to counter this.
Sadly, we’ll need to organize twelve million Americans to counter this.
Taalnazi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The No Kings march managed to bring up 8 million, though! We can do this.
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
“The bottom 60%” gives more detail than merely saying “the majority”.
glimse@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah but then the person who replied couldn’t advertise their social media page with the screenshot they took
Avicenna@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
foggianism@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This reminded me of the guy who shared on his socials that he scored so high on his IQ test, he was the “top 90% of all participants”.
Hupf@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
And now he even has his very own platform!
nodiratime@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Forest Gump from Temu
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Unfortunately, the US, and some other Western democracies, operate based on capital. Bottom 60% owns nothing, so it’s the minority. Top 0.1% owns everything, so it’s the majority.
CromulantCrow@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I think this is the press release for the new analysis they are referring to. It’s titled Majority of Americans Can’t Achieve a Minimal Quality of Life, According to New Ludwig Institute Research. You can find “bottom 60%” in the fourth paragraph
In 2023, the bottom 60% of households earned just 22.1% of all disposable income but needed 39% to meet MQL.
turdas@suppo.fi 3 weeks ago
That’s probably the minority of voters.
lath@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yup. Mostly because they don’t have time to vote and the parties are trying their best to make them unable to vote.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Kinda, but we see similar to baseline wealth cohort breakdowns of elective non-voting in states with universal vote by mail.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I do not have a problem with the “60%” wording. It’s more accurate and in some cases, larger than “majority”. Complaining about that just feels like playing word games.
Frettchen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
People should be angry
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Be angry at the right things then. This person’s post is basically being angry that someone agreed with them but used slightly different words to do it.
kamen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I have a problem with the fact that the top maybe 1% (I don’t know the exact number, could be less than 1 even) owns more than the rest in total.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is there anyone reading this that doesn’t?
Sunflier@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
To any American I meet, it more likly than not that they fall into this category
ramble81@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I mean, that’s what a majority usually means. 😂
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
I guess my point was that I hadnt realized that it’s no longer just that little neighborhood with the amazing food, it’s like… Most folks now. I hadn’t fully processed the impact of that.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The Media: “Work harder and no $7 lattés!”
krisevol@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
Do people post reply’s, then screen cap it, and share their reply to everywhere?
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
glimse@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I hope that one day internet culture collectively shames this practice out of existence.
It’s not even a good zinger. It’s just an ad for their social media page. Remember to like and subscribe.
Nautalax@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
$105,411, a household income in the top 10th percentile globally, isn’t enough to afford minimal quality of life?
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
A lot of labor activists and socialists have some actually unhinged, unsustainable, and downright incredibly privileged ideas of what every single house hold in a country should have/be able to afford, from what I’ve noticed. Which can sometimes shoot in the foot of being able to actually reach more reasonable targets
athatet@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
When was this posted? Why are you always cutting the dates off your posts?
sanitation@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
im reposting from reddit. I think original guy cut off dates not me
rockettaco37@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
The US is a falling empire. It’s going to get so much worse for everybody until Americans do something.
wallwood@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
They certainly generate enough money. But most of it ends up with the top 1%
BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
but hey… um… ok, nevermind, this just sucks
redditStinksSuperBad@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
about 50% of these people didn’t vote. of the half that did vote, over half of them voted for trump. fuck em. this is what ya voted for.
DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Yeah, yeah. We know. If she’d won you’d be at brunch.
And that’s the problem, given that the headline here is from the Biden administration.
redditStinksSuperBad@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
maybe not at brunch but we certainly would’ve been better off.
ech@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Because being less clear is better?
saimen@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
But look what the top 0.00001% got!
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hey, 'Murica?
How does all this “winning” feel?
Yours contemptuously,
The civilised world
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Honestly, it hurts and we’re tired of it. Send help, or like a sniper or something.
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ll celebrate as much as anyone the day the dipshit is no longer with us, but he didn’t singlehandedly cause this, nor will getting rid of him magically fix everything.
And the fact is, not all Americans are tired of it. There are millions of Americans who are perfectly happy with things the way they are. There are millions more who would be perfectly content if all else were unchanged but we had a slightly less embarrassing commander in chief, as though that’s our only problem. It isn’t. Not by a long shot.
CaptainMan251@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Our president said we are going to win, we will say “no more winning sir, we are winning too much we can’t win anymore”
That’s where we are. All this winning is destroying our country.
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yeah, ours have all sucked so far.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
How about you stand the fuck up and fight, you absolute cowards
CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Lol, as an European, don’t get too smug. Our leaders, media & billionaires are frothing at the mouth thinking following the US’ path.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Oh it’s worse than that. Once America’s billionaires plunder the US treasury and tank the bond market (so we can’t borrow any more), they’ll make good their escape and then do the same to the rest of the developed world.
They’re richer than any royalty or industrialist robber baron has in history by at least a factor of four, and can afford to buy all the elections and capture all of the governments.
Quarries and data centers as far as the eye can see.
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Think of how dumb the average person is, half of them are dumber than that. And they voted this rotten mango into office. We are sick of him and watching our country crumble around him.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The original line is that we would get tired of winning. So that’s what this is. We’re tired of winning so we have opted for losing. Lots of losing.
sludgewife@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
i wanna die thanks for asking
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Maybe try doing something about it?
Malica@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It feels like just desserts