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by chepaslaaa 2239 days ago
I'm canadian, I sure as fuck wouldn't want to emigrate to the USA. Warren Buffet has huge biases and blind spots when it comes to sociological analysis. I strongly doubt the man understands what it's like to be making 7$ an hour working at Dennys somewhere in the bible belt because the public school system left you semi-illiterate, or living in any heavily criminalized urban area, or picking fruits in california because you had to escape cartels in mexico/central america. None of the people in my examples or developing their full potential, and there's a massive proportion of americans in this bottom social class.

*And canada could be doing way better. There are glaring social inequalities here too.
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koheripbal 2238 days ago
> huge biases and blind spots when it comes to sociological analysis.

...apparently so do you since your next sentence is full of such incredible hyperbole...

> 7$ an hour working at Dennys somewhere in the bible belt because the public school system left you semi-illiterate, or living in any heavily criminalized urban area, or picking fruits in california because you had to escape cartels in mexico/central america.

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JoeAltmaier 2239 days ago
Not sure 'massive proportion' is right? I think its less than 50M in America, employed at labor jobs. That's around 12%?
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charwalker 2239 days ago
Pew suggests about 50% of America is the middle class, earning about $78k a year. I'm not sure what fraction is in manual labor jobs but if labor means working then the rate is about 62%.

From BLS data, about 12.7% of the population lives in poverty, workers/children/etc. This group is disproportionately minority (non white) and an example of the social failing of the richest nation in history.

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