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Re:I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018) by rswail on Sunday November 10, 2024 @02:22AM (#42098924)
The top 1% are closer to a homeless person on the street than they are to the top 0.1%.

The wealth inequality in the US is the underlying fracture in the social compact that is driving the populist politics that are at play.

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Re:I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018) by epicureanideal on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @07:45PM (#42121713)
Although wealth inequality would not be such a big deal if there were sufficient merit based social mobility and plentiful opportunity to develop merit.
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Re:I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018) by amrocha on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @08:49AM (#42126069)
There is no merit that warrants more than 10 million dollars. At that point money is just power, not consumption.
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