Comment by danny_codes
6 days ago
And yet that GINI keeps rising and cost of living outpaces inflation over the past 40 years in housing, healthcare, and education. If you are bottom quintile, maybe bottom 2, you are poorer now than 40 years ago on average. Recent policy changes seek to drop the third quintile as well.
America is designed for rich people
The bottom quintile gets everything handed to them and it's still not enough. We all live at the mercy of them and their dysfunction.
Seeing an actual "Lucky Ducky!" in the wild is always a trip.
How are you at the mercy of a group with no money or power? Genuinely curious how you logic-ed your way into this tenuous and seemingly ludicrous position
They have money. It’s taken from the rest of us and given to them. The rules you follow in life will be based on the behavior of the bottom quintile, the taxes you pay are to support the bottom quintile, the greatest risks to your life and property will come from the bottom quintile, the dearth of comfortable public spaces is because you have to allow the bottom quintile to be there, our zoning laws are developed for fear of the bottom quintile.