Report finds wealth of top 1% up $21T, bottom 50% down $900B since 1989

Re:Report finds wealth of top 1% up $21T, bottom 50% down $9... by brownbat on Saturday June 15, 2019 @01:19PM (#20190984)

Your takeaway was "I don't care about the poor" from a comment where I literally talk about how important it is to help people who didn't have the same opportunities I had.

It's _the opposite_ of what I said.

All I want is to control for age, or use some other technique to improve the data.

Sorry if I laid out that point in a confusing way, maybe this is on me. But saying someone has no empathy is calling them a sociopath. If you're going to lean into personal attacks, don't you at least owe them the common courtesy of re-reading their comment in full to make sure you understand their point?

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Re:Report finds wealth of top 1% up $21T, bottom 50% down $9... by ajross on Saturday June 15, 2019 @08:52PM (#20193154)

> It's _the opposite_ of what I said. All I want is [...]

Then I sincerely apologize. What you wrote sounded like excuse making for why the poor don't really have it so bad and why the inexorably increasing income inequality in our society isn't a problem.

If it's not, and you're merely making a dry critique of the analysis... meh. It's still not really helping anyone now, is it? "We need better data" is what climate denialists like to say too.

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