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by paganel 2059 days ago
> saving billions and billions of dollars for everyday Americans without costing taxpayers a dime

I have a feeling that these savings mostly benefit middle-class Americans.

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of course as the middle-class is vanishing the correspondence is perhaps not as valid as before, but everyday Americans would once have been understood as a reference to middle-class Americans.
When you have a random variable with log-normal distribution, such as income or wealth, unless the fundamental mechanism is changed to be additive (normal) instead of multiplicative (log-normal), you'll end up with the bulk of people at the low end of that curve. The existence of a large middle class was an anomaly.