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Re:2021 Letter by matthewdgreen on Sunday January 02, 2022 @09:05AM (#29768767)
I don’t think that’s really a fair summary of the article and it elides many of the nuances, such as the fact that the “increase in wealth” you cherry-pick is due to demographic changes (workers getting older and thus having higher salaries) whereas the other measures in the article all point to declines. But more to the point: does this summary reflect your actual experience?
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Re:2021 Letter by 11thEarlOfMar on Sunday January 02, 2022 @04:26PM (#29774109)
The word that caught my attention was demise. It doesn’t square if you believe that the US is seeing record employment and record stock market returns, as more than 50% of US households have stock-based investments.

I was asking, and still hoping to see, the metrics and data that point to demise of the US middle class.

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