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Re:US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage by maxxxxx on Thursday August 16, 2018 @12:16PM (#17775932)
"he wealthy simply leave (because they can afford to), and let place that they set on fire burn to the ground,"

There was a movie while ago where the rich people lived in space in beautiful habitats, had technology that could heal anybody while the rest had to labor on Earth under terrible conditions. Don't remember the name but maybe the move isn't that fictitious.

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Re:US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage by dv_dt on Thursday August 16, 2018 @12:25PM (#17776032)
Doesn't have to be in space. A visceral visual version of it is easy to see in Brazil

https://globalperipheries.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/the-favel...

But a version of this is present in America too. With areas without drinkable water, and areas w/o even a working sanitation system.

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Re:US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage by godzillabrennus on Thursday August 16, 2018 @12:19PM (#17775965)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium_(film)

Elysium is the film.

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Re:US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage by ajeet_dhaliwal on Thursday August 16, 2018 @12:25PM (#17776037)
Great movie. I liked the way the regular citizens (the non leadership) of Elysium were portrayed as largely oblivious or lacking in any care to the sufferings on Earth.
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Re:US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage by maxxxxx on Thursday August 16, 2018 @12:37PM (#17776186)
That's probably how I as middle class would look from the view of a poor person in the third world :-).
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