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If you divided all the stocks issued in the US stock markets by issue number

and put them in a basket, chose one randomly,

there is an 87% chance that that specific stock belongs to someone in the top 10% of wealth in the country.

There’s either millions or billions of stocks in existence, but this is still true.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's right around the time "Business Administrators" came on the scene. "How can we squeeze even more juice from the lemon" seems to be their only administrating task.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Also, it's when conservative think tanks first came online. This is 80% government policy, 20% corporate fuckery (outside of gov't fuckery).