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Re:All Hollowed Out: The lonely poverty of America’s white w... by yummyfajitas on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @12:00PM (#10931980)
Tl;Dr my hypothetical of everyone getting richer is an accurate description of reality. Also, formerly excluded groups (e.g. women) saw faster income growth than the former privileged class (white men).
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Re:All Hollowed Out: The lonely poverty of America’s white w... by jfoutz on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @03:07PM (#10933555)
No. the WSJ graph shows high school level education and lower men of any race being about 10% worse off than 1979. 40% of americans only have high school education so, uh, like 70 million people or so.

Everyone getting richer is not an accurate description of reality.

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