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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlM to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

America is now the most unequal society in the developed world. Our billionaires are the richest, and our poor people are the poorest of any functioning democracy on Earth

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America is now the most unequal society in the developed world. Our billionaires are the richest, and our poor people are the poorest of any functioning democracy on Earth

hartmannreport.com

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlM to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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How The Richest Democracy in the World Abandons Americans
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America is now the most unequal society in the developed world. Our billionaires are the richest, and our poor people are the poorest of any functioning democracy on Earth…
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  • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml
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    The title implies we haven’t been the most unequal society for the better part of a century.

    • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      yeah it was literally always that way

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPM
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      The article is written by a lib, so have to account for the biases there.

    • FanonFan [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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      From the start, right? Like chattel slavery and settler colonialism is about as unequal as you can get

      • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml
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        Yeah. Even my comment is understating things.

  • octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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    Saddest part is this will get no attention. Nothing, absolutely nothing, will be done about this.

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    lol, “functioning”.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      also lol, “democracy”

      • davel@lemmy.ml
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        Hartmann will never stop believing in liberal democracy because it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

      • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        “developed world” threw me for a loop

  • giacomo@lemm.ee
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    So you’re telling us we’re number one?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPM
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      American exceptionalism baby

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    I find it ironic that they chose to use an AI generated image rather than pay a photographer or an artist.

    • AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml
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      I think this is just one guy not a corporation.

      • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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        I used they rather than he or she because I did not want to assume a gender.

    • thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca
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      Or a model who is actually representative of the poorest people that they are trying to illustrate the plight of.

      • DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz
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        deleted by creator

        • thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca
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          No lol the fake person is plenty homeless-looking… But it’s a fake person.

    • pan_troglodytes@programming.dev
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      then they’d have to pay someone. ironic indeed

  • jabrd [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Functioning democracy [citation needed]

  • purahna@lemmygrad.ml
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    “Our poor people are the poorest” sounds suspect to be honest - Haiti? Congo? If you count $200K in student loan debt as poorer than $0 across the board, sure, but if you go by actual quality of life, there’s no way.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPM
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      The article is qualifying it as the poorest in the developed world.

      • purahna@lemmygrad.ml
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        “our poor people are the poorest of any functioning democracy on Earth” - Does this mean that the author doesn’t count the developing world as functioning democracies, but does count all of the developed world as functioning democracies?

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPM
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          that tracks with the author clearly being a lib

  • Tremble@sh.itjust.works
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    Yay!!!

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    Lmao

    Think about it, you could be out helping instead of counting suffering as a win for yourself. I guess you do you 🤡

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPM
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      I don’t live in your shithole country. I just watch the clown show from the outside.

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        Oh no, you insulted the same country I insult daily, I am so hurt.

        The cool thing is me being able to shit talk my own country for their errors. I do it more than any other country on the planet. You’ll never know the feeling that gives you.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPM
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          It’s true I’ll never know what it’s like to be a deranged American. I’m thankful for that every day.

          • davel@lemmy.ml
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            People, we have a Canuck modding our comm. We can no longer sit back and allow Canadian infiltration, Canadian indoctrination, Canadian subversion, and the international Canadian conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPM
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              🤣

  • zcd@lemmy.ca
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    “Functioning democracy” 🤡

    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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      There was the big election where the sitting president was replaced. I guess that’s something.

      • Jazzy Vidalia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Except when it doesn’t happen:

        • Bush II did not win the election, he was appointed before the recounts were even tallied.

        • Trump was appointed to the presidency after losing the election in 2016 to Hillary Clinton by the Electoral College. Hilary won by 3M votes or 2% of the vote.

        Literally two presidents during my lifetime failed to win the popular vote and every time this occurred it was to the benefit of a largely unpopular political party who used technicalities built into the Constitution to overturn the democratic will of the people. Funny how it never has worked in the opposite direction, almost as if it was built-in with that idea in mind.

        We do not have a democracy, we have a sham system that puts the interests of business before the interests of people.

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      Yeah, one could argue that a functioning democracy would prevent the kind of wealth gap we have.

  • SSJ2Marx [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    functioning democracy

    doing a lot of work here

  • pan_troglodytes@programming.dev
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    USA USA USA USA !!!

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