• orcrist@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The vast majority of Americans are worse off economically than they were before the pandemic. This was in the news just last week. NBC says “good economy” and the people say “pull the other one”.

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        1 year ago

        It’s about numbers as a whole, and the bottom 50% of earners in the US only have 2.6% of the wealth. They can advertise a ‘good economy’ but most of us can’t afford to participate in it.