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Re:Charts about Wealth Inequality in America by habosa on Thursday July 06, 2017 @10:01PM (#14715488)
Wow. Much of this I knew but one thing that shocked me is that the 10th percentile of wealth in this country is a family with NEGATIVE $2000. If you were dropped into Nebraska from a meteor with nothing in your pocket you wouldn't even be in the bottom tenth.

A sad state of affairs for the "greatest country in the world".

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Re:Charts about Wealth Inequality in America by brianwawok on Friday July 07, 2017 @01:09PM (#14720042)
Want to do a survey of how many people in that bottom tenth have an iPhone?
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Re:Charts about Wealth Inequality in America by habosa on Friday July 07, 2017 @01:59PM (#14720526)
A $600 iPhone is probably one of the best investments you can make if you want to participate in modern society.
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Re:Charts about Wealth Inequality in America by mywittyname on Friday July 07, 2017 @02:50PM (#14720996)
Agreed. And iPhones have been around for like a decade and over a billion of them have been produced, so there are plenty of cheap used versions available.
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Re:Charts about Wealth Inequality in America by sokoloff on Friday July 07, 2017 @05:33PM (#14722305)
A $150 iPhone 5S is likely a better choice for someone in the bottom 1/10th of wealth.
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Re:Charts about Wealth Inequality in America by cylinder on Friday July 07, 2017 @05:02PM (#14722067)
Want to do a survey of how many people in that bottom tenth have faced massive out of pocket expenses for healthcare and insurance premiums?
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Re:Charts about Wealth Inequality in America by collyw on Friday July 07, 2017 @01:36PM (#14720307)
iPhones are cheap when they are not purchased new.
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Re:Charts about Wealth Inequality in America by thehardsphere on Friday July 07, 2017 @04:05PM (#14721611)
Don't be so sure that it's sad. I'm pretty sure there are lots of doctors with negative $2000 net worth or less.
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Re:Charts about Wealth Inequality in America by DarkKomunalec on Friday July 07, 2017 @09:41AM (#14718219)
"dropped into Nebraska from a meteor"

Don't you mean Kansas?

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