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Re:America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented by esoterica on Monday January 04, 2021 @04:41PM (#25638554)
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.
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Re:America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented by l3v3ll on Monday January 04, 2021 @05:21PM (#25639078)
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.
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Re:America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented by catawbasam on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:22PM (#25640780)
Better than the elitists? They are the elite.
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Re:America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented by l3v3ll on Monday January 04, 2021 @10:00PM (#25641535)
Ha! I was going to edit my post with exactly that, that is correct. 500K/year is probably top 2%?
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Re:America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented by ryandrake on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @01:58AM (#25642900)
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.
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Re:America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented by l3v3ll on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @09:36AM (#25645906)
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.
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Re:America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented by esoterica on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @12:41PM (#25648270)
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.
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Re:America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented by detaro on Monday January 04, 2021 @10:02PM (#25641553)
That's a small part even of the people here.
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Re:America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented by cratermoon on Monday January 04, 2021 @04:43PM (#25638583)
And yet they are. Petite bourgeoisie and all that.
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