Re:America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented
by esoterica on Monday January 04, 2021 @04:41PM
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Who is the "you" here? Given that this is a tech focused website, I bet a lot of people on here have done very well in recent years. Hard to consider the 20- and 30- something year olds making $500k/year at a FAANG or a few million dollars when the unicorn they work for IPOs an oppressed class.
Re:America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented
by l3v3ll on Monday January 04, 2021 @05:21PM
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20- and 30- somethings at FAANG is hardly a picture of America as a whole. Also if 20- and 30- somethings ignore the rest of our neighbors in other fields because “F you got mine”, we’re hardly better than the elitists.
Re:America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented
by catawbasam on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:22PM
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Better than the elitists? They are the elite.
Re:America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented
by l3v3ll on Monday January 04, 2021 @10:00PM
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Ha! I was going to edit my post with exactly that, that is correct. 500K/year is probably top 2%?
Re:America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented
by ryandrake on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @01:58AM
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The elite are not the ones making a tech salary and spending 1/4 of it on their rent. The elite are the few who are writing those tech salary paychecks.
Re:America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented
by l3v3ll on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @09:36AM
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Agreed. The difference between the top .01% and top 2% is many magnitudes larger than the difference between those 2% and the other 98%. (Sorry no source.). But both seem to contribute to the increasing inequality.
Re:America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented
by esoterica on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @12:41PM
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I bet the people making $7.25 an hour would consider the $500k/year FAANG crowd pretty elite. Also if you own enough tech stock then you are also kind of writing the paychecks.
Re:America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented
by detaro on Monday January 04, 2021 @10:02PM
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That's a small part even of the people here.
Re:America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented
by cratermoon on Monday January 04, 2021 @04:43PM
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And yet they are. Petite bourgeoisie and all that.
You vote for them, and you feel good if they win. But then what happens? Nothing.
The rich keeps getting richer. While the poor stays poor. And the middle class becomes poorer.
The elites just wants to make more money. And what do they do? They buy out the politicians, in order to keep themselves rich.
And what’s the biggest lie that they’ve sold you?
That trickle-down-economics works for everyone.