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by usednet 1562 days ago
How do you suggest lower and middle income people purchase their necessities? You can’t feed 330 million people through farm-to-table distribution. That’s not to say they can’t be improved on.
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How do you suggest that lower and middle class people find stuff on the internet (Google) or can afford phones (Android)? How do you suggest small companies take advantage of a global distribution network and unknown authors get their books published (Amazon)? Who has done more to commoditize computers to make them affordable than Microsoft and Google? Amazon raising wages to $18/hour lifted wages for everyone. Yes the “evil monopolies” have done good also.

I purposefully left out Facebook. I don’t see how they have been a net good for society. I also left our Apple, since they don’t focus on the “lower and middle income”.

What I wonder is why do poor wage slavers like you enjoy tounging the boot so much?
Well, three responses:

1. I have an addiction to food and shelter and my parents seem to have a problem taking care of someone who is almost 50.

2. According to DQYDJ, I’m in the 97th percentile of income earners [1]. I am not bragging, a college grad 5 years out of school would be too as an SDE2 at any major tech company.

3. Are you independently wealthy or do you also exchange labor for money?

[1] https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/

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