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Re:The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U... by btbuildem on Monday October 18, 2021 @01:26PM (#28908056)
I'll go along with your point. Demographics of the US skew heavily towards the old. If your hypothesis were true, you'd expect to see the wealth distributed roughly with age.
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Re:The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U... by chmod600 on Monday October 18, 2021 @01:33PM (#28908144)
What hypothesis? The article here doesn't control for some very important factors. I refuse to be outraged until I see numbers corrected for non-outragous factors, like mobility.
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