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Crazy how a place with so much wealth can have so many people living in destitute.
I guess that's what we get when we're just passing a bunch of money around at the top.
All that wealth is owned by a minuscule fraction of the population. The rest of the 99% are poor.
I get tired of hearing that America is a wealthy country. It’s not the people that are wealthy. It’s just 1% of the population that is wealthy. The rest are poor and just a single missed pay check from being on the street like the people in this photo.
Relatively speaking, Americans are wealthy af.
You should take a look at the rest of the world.
That’s not really true if you account for the purchasing power of the dollar within the US. While Americans might benefit from cheap imported consumer goods, their housing, food, and healthcare costs are incredibly high when compared to other countries.
Yes, and their quality of life is also higher than those countries.
the one creates the other. the middle class is being gutted by the super rich, while congress is paid handsomely to do nothing about anything.