
enemyofmyenemy
Most people prefer not tearing apart the richest country in the world, yes. Everything you are describing here isn’t particularly hard to fix, people don’t want to fix it because it’s inconvenient. Flipping the chess board is a child’s response.>richest country in the world >the average boomer has become a millionaire by doing one job 40 hours a week, unheard of in human history >Amercians living below the poverty line have a car a microwave a fridge a phone access to more cheap food than anywhere in the world >middle class doesn’t exist as it did because people live off 401ks, small business loans, credit cards >40% of able bodied adults don’t work >inflation is under 4%
We use a relative poverty line. Roughly 80% of America’s poor are in the top half of global income earners after adjusting for purchasing power. The middle class is shrinking, but the lower class is shrinking too. This is because people from both are moving into the upper class. Inequality has been pretty stable in the 21st century. In Weimar Germany the monthly inflation rate peaked at 30,000%. Our monthly inflation rate is 0.6%