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Re:You misunderstand what it means to be poor by potato3732842 on Friday November 14, 2025 @01:30PM (#45930077)
If it only pumped the money to a few individuals someone would've pushed those individuals off a cliff and seized power by now.

The magic of the system is that there's enough trickle down to motivate the petite-bourgeois (I hate Marx, but I'll be darned if he didn't enumerate some good economic tiers) to make them keep the system running.

Your media talking heads peddling division, your 200k+/yr software engineers implementing extractive algorithms to make the gig economy tick, etc, etc, etc.

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Re:You misunderstand what it means to be poor by TheOtherHobbes on Friday November 14, 2025 @01:45PM (#45930329)
It looks like the times are changing thanks to AI, so we'll see what happens when the petite-bourgeoisie stop being quite so bougie.
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Re:You misunderstand what it means to be poor by ModernMech on Friday November 14, 2025 @01:46PM (#45930347)
If that were true, the Vice President wouldn't be trying to convince us that housing costs are high because of illegal immigration.
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