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More tax cuts to the rich.


Oh my god I can just FEEL the growth! It's going to trickle down any second now! Any second!


How about this trend? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extre...

There is growth, it might not be where you are, or it might be superimposed with other effects for you.


That graph ends in 2015. The 2025 graph flattens. Looks like we can explain this trend by the economic development of East Asia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Total_population_living_i...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty


Selfishness is a sin for me but a virtue for billionaires lobbying away the last shreds of tax they are embarrassed to pay? I see how it is.


Have you not looked at Elon's bank account? WINNING*

* via government subsidies


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Capital pays you for being rich in proportion to how rich you are. Elon can't hide behind my 401k, he doesn't fit. Also: most Americans and most people are far poorer than you and I and get paid even less for being rich than you and I.


That's helpful if you're privileged enough to amass enough to invest before labor's share of output collapses.


Can you estimate what percentage of the population has a meaningful amount of money in funds like this?


wow, pennies on the dollar and yet there’s a trillionaire


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Sorry, they've been bought off by said trillionaires.




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