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[โ€“] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

They widened the definition of middle class in order to mask the amount of actual poor people. I like This video of how people actually use their money. Supposedly 20% of people make 25k a year ๐Ÿ˜ฑ

"The upper class: keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class: pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there...just to scare the shit out of the middle class." -George Carlin'

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

50k is hardly a livable wage, let alone 25k. It's absurd that people can ever think a full time job shouldn't pay the bills

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sprinkle in a little credit card debt and 2k rent and good luck. You'd think the 1% would be trying to change something before the guillotines come out

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Heads too far up their own asses to see that there could be consequences because under the current system they built they don't face any.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

We're seeing more political violence as things escalate, won't be too long before it spreads to representatives and the obscenely wealthy Is imagine.

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