• UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world
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    They widened the definition of middle class in order to mask the amount of actual poor people. I like This video of how people actually use their money. Supposedly 20% of people make 25k a year 😱

    “The upper class: keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class: pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there…just to scare the shit out of the middle class.” -George Carlin’

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      50k is hardly a livable wage, let alone 25k. It’s absurd that people can ever think a full time job shouldn’t pay the bills

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        Sprinkle in a little credit card debt and 2k rent and good luck. You’d think the 1% would be trying to change something before the guillotines come out

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          Heads too far up their own asses to see that there could be consequences because under the current system they built they don’t face any.

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            We’re seeing more political violence as things escalate, won’t be too long before it spreads to representatives and the obscenely wealthy Is imagine.