America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented

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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