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by issore 1106 days ago
Right because once the public has real economic power the rich do not so they juice their prices, and meddle in other ways to deflate the buying power; aka inflate prices.

$200k in the 80s would be $600k buying power now. But it’s barely middle class.

Our society is entirely a wealth preservation scheme for people who cannot prove they did the work, they just have political documents of power.