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minus-squarebigfondue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 hours agoSo 90 percent of people do 50% of the spending. That’s fucked
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours agoYeah. Breaking that was what the New Deal was about; it shifted wealth away from the robber barons and created a generation of broadly if imperfectly shared prosperity
So 90 percent of people do 50% of the spending. That’s fucked
Yeah. Breaking that was what the New Deal was about; it shifted wealth away from the robber barons and created a generation of broadly if imperfectly shared prosperity