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19% would be the complacent middle class 🤮
Hot tip - that's most Lemmy users. I'm guessing there's also people in the top 0.9 kicking around.
Edit: Aaaand yup, there's cope in the comments.
Socialists are mostly the champaign kind now, although that doesn't make them wrong, neccesarily. Honestly, I have trouble picturing the old days when the kind of people I live around would have voted left.
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The system is progressing as expected. The US is further ahead on the timeline. If they collapse first, that may trigger a systemic reset here, before we've reached their stage of fascist dystopia. Get your demands ready and demand more than people did during the 1930s. Much more.
Complacent middle class, or rapidly shrinking and struggling to not fall further middle class?
In the US, actually-doing-better-and-better middle class, for the most part. I'm seeing the top 10% as a usual "center" in analysis of the k-shaped economy. It's brown people and Trump voters in trailer parks that are actually losing.
Looks like the trend is just a lot less pronounced in Canada, though. We're all a bit poorer.
Yeah, the issue here isn't the middle class, it's as usual, the owner class that's the problem
The middle class is their tool. They are incented to perpetuate this bullshit.
The middle class is like the personal carbon footprint - it's a fabrication created by the ultra-wealthy to divert responsibility from themselves. There is only the owner class and the working class.
Except the middle class actually does own most stuff, and consume the most. The ultra-rich are rich, but there's just so few of them.
I respectfully disagree. The middle class is not perfect, but the issue here is the ruling class
How are you (OP) blaming the "middle" class? What could you suggest nurses, teachers, fire fighters, etc do to solve the problem of wealth inequality?
I genuinely want to know because it seems to me that we control nothing and have no excess to give.
Stop performing those services. En mass.
You get that they'll just de-professionalize those roles and let untrained, unskilled hacks and quacks loose on the general populace, right? I mean you want to have your kids taught by some goof quoting Grok, and your grandma getting her life saving treatment from Bobby Kennedy approved witch-doctors that's where you end up if the professionals all decide to quit En Masse.
Lol, too true 😁
...so let people die, stop caring for our neighbours, allow ignorance and illiteracy to fester. Seems extreme and misplaced.
A better, less-nihilistic approach might be: stop buying things, cancel subscriptions, sell dividend-paying stocks, etc. Or even better: a general strike.
A general strike is stopping doing those services en masse.
Yes, but it includes the whole population rather than a narrow sub-section. It would also send a much stronger message.
See what happens when CEOs and politicians need to wipe their own asses.
Who suffers the most? The vulnerable
Do you mean "incentivized?" But yeah.
Incent is correct in fact 🤓
incent verb in·cent in-ˈsent incented; incenting; incents transitive verb
: incentivize … a large prize … may also incent some employee referrals. —Bill Conerly
Its definition is literally a reference to "incentivize," so all that proves is that language has rotted slightly
Back in the 1840s apparently.
Not if you actually read the chart
"The earliest known use of the verb incent is in the 1840s."
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If you read the chart, rather than just the AI summary, you'd see that usage was quite low until a slow rise in the mid-20th century.
I read the whole document akshully. No need to be so cranky.
Sure, Jan.
It is long overdue time to eat them.
I recall reading the exact same thing for Mexico. Let me guess, this is pretty much the same for the entire planet.
Finally, the top 1 per cent hold almost a quarter of all wealth in Canada. A person in the top 1 per cent owns 210 times more wealth than an average person in the bottom 50 per cent.
By contrast, the bottom 40 per cent collectively hold slightly more than 3 per cent of total wealth in Canada, each with an average net worth of just under $87,000.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
If you ever look at wealth and income data by quantiles, there is no middle class, it’s just exponentially increasing amount of wealth as you shift to higher quantities.