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Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

So much for "progress"

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So much for "progress"

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Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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    The wealthy are much better off though. If you looked at the wage increase of the top 1%, if has risen by $800,000 a year (https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/09/staggering-new-data-shows-income-top-1-has-grown-100-times-faster-bottom-50-1970) since 1970.

    So capitalism is working exactly the way it is supposed to. Exploiting the middle and lower classes for the rich. This is exactly the progress they want.

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      It’s a trickle-up economy.

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        The working class gives the wealthy their blood and sweat and the wealthy turn it into urine and piss it back on their heads and then tell the working class the reason they smell like piss is because of immigrants.

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        It’s a sunshine economy: The wealth (moisture) slowly evaporates upwards.

      • zergtoshi@lemmy.world
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        Sadly it does more than merely trickle up.
        It’s more like a torrent going upwards.

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      Much more than that. The richest men in the country doubled their net worth this year alone.

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        It’s actually even worse than that. The doubling was just in the last few months. Essentially, election time. You can practically hear them salivating at an incoming Trump admin.

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      Progress? … don’t you mean maintaining the status quo of human inequality for the past 10,000 years?

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        The rich are getting progressively richer relative to everyone else, so I’d call it accurate.

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