We should have a global Land Value Tax on the top 1%.
fuck tax. if we don’t kill them they will kill us.
I used to work with unhoused populations. those people are you, and they do not have a long life expectancy. do you choose risk of death in revolution, or its certainty?
Wouldn’t the middle class be the 49% in between?
It’s funny how American media is always talking about the economy yet they seem to have zero economic literacy
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
In the UK the middle class also largely seem to not want to help the working class. I have seen them complain about things which help the working class as it brings them closer to the middle class and they don’t like it. Things like a livable minimum wage.
That’s interesting; I always thought the middle class was a subset of the working class
Sort of, but I find in reality they usually look down on the working class and will vote against them.
How the concept of “middle class” implies income is distributed:
How income is actually distributed:
I think you need labels and explanations for theses
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, but fair warning: that blue pill is mostly ketamine. you’re gonna need daipers after.
Im not contriving a way for this to be okay, Im pointing out the massive gap in excluding almost half the problem to try and make a point.
There is quite clearly a problem, but trying to say that theres no “middle class” (a concept meant to mollify a large swath of people) by implying a group who owns 65% of wealth doesnt matter is terrible logic.
you’re terrible logic.
Yeah, I think the best way to present this would be to look at that top 1 v. bottom 50 over time, and watch the gulf between them grow and grow.
Serves me right. It is from finance.yahoo.com.
I have up-voted the article, but now I think that the photo is AI. Somebody please tell me I didn’t just up-vote AI. I will not support any AI image knowingly, Gaia bless my fleeting incarnation of self-awareness.
- Not AI. It’s a stock photo (credited in the caption), which often look like AI because they’re inherently pretty staged and lifeless and make up a lot of generative AI’s training material.
- Setting aside the fact there’s no evidence of AI in this image in a vacuum, here’s the album, where you can see consistency between shots. And the image is credited to early 2016.
- While Yahoo! Finance has original articles (and I don’t know what you have against them, being so vague about it), this isn’t one of them. This is an article from the newsletter of Benzinga, an investment platform. By and large, Yahoo! News and Yahoo! Finance are news aggregators with a minority of their content being first-party.
- You can edit your comments and don’t have to fork your amendment(s)/addendum(s) into a second comment.
