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Re:SF’s Black Market Thrives Off Retail Theft by kmlx on Saturday July 30, 2022 @03:56AM (#32285118)
> We live in a society where the rich and elites - the ones running our governments and corporations, are all greedily exploiting and cheating the entire populace.

this is just a plain old run of the mill conspiracy theory.

reality unfortunately is never black and white, and that’s because modern societies are extremely complex systems:

https://ourworldindata.org/income-inequality

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_mobility_in_th...

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Re:SF’s Black Market Thrives Off Retail Theft by yunohn on Saturday July 30, 2022 @04:03AM (#32285147)
What’s the conspiracy theory? You’ve literally just linked to the Wikipedia article about socioeconomic mobility (which I never argued can’t exist) and an incomplete income inequality dataset. Neither of which disprove that the elites are exploiting the poor.
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