Yeah; that was my thought too. I don’t disagree that the middle class in trouble; but this post doesn’t address 49% of the population

It's funny how American media is always talking about the economy yet they seem to have zero economic literacy

How the concept of "middle class" implies income is distributed:

How income is actually distributed:

you're trying to contrive a way this could be okay. an angle you could look from where you won't are how terrifying and atrocious this is.

I'll sell you the drugs that can make it possible, but fair warning: that blue pill is mostly ketamine. you're gonna need daipers after.

• Not AI. It's a stock photo (credited in the caption), which often look like AI because they're inherently pretty staged and lifeless and make up a lot of generative AI's training material.
• Setting aside the fact there's no evidence of AI in this image in a vacuum, here's the album, where you can see consistency between shots. And the image is credited to early 2016.
• While Yahoo! Finance has original articles (and I don't know what you have against them, being so vague about it), this isn't one of them. This is an article from the newsletter of Benzinga, an investment platform. By and large, Yahoo! News and Yahoo! Finance are news aggregators with a minority of their content being first-party.
• You can edit your comments and don't have to fork your amendment(s)/addendum(s) into a second comment.

Once you hit 1 billion, everything above should be taxed at 100%, period.

You can get a nice plaque "won capitalism", and the rest of the wealth gets redistributed to the bottom 10-20%.