This cartoon from The Seattle Times illustrates how America’s economic pizza is actually sliced per capita, highlighting the massive disparity between the Top 1%, the merely wealthy, the upper middle class, and the lower 50%.

  • join@lemmy.ml
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    15 days ago

    Yes, but, my neighbors just bought a bigger car than me, so I had to buy a new one as well - on a loan. If I skip my sons birthday and instead make overtime, maybe my boss will notice and give me a raise (so I don’t have to subtract the loan interest from my sons college fund). Anyways if immigrants actually payed their taxes this would all not be problem… What was I doing again? Ah I was on my way to vote split ticket again; devided government keeps both sides in check.

    Edit: I guess satire is not my strength.

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      15 days ago

      Refusing to consume is one of the greatest acts of resistance that pretty much everyone is actually able to do, and would even benefit from doing.