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minus-squareteslasaur@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 days agoOdds are that you are a stockholder. Do you have a retirement? Or money in a bank?
minus-squareDeme@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·10 days agoUsually when people refer to the shareholders, they mean the 1% who own like half of all the wealth in the world.
minus-squaresin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-210 days agoI mean, I get what people mean when they say that, but it’s ill-informed. This from a year ago: The wealthiest 10% of Americans own 93% of stocks even with market participation at a record high Meanwhile, the bottom 50% of Americans held just 1% of all stocks in the third quarter of 2023. -source
Odds are that you are a stockholder. Do you have a retirement? Or money in a bank?
Usually when people refer to the shareholders, they mean the 1% who own like half of all the wealth in the world.
I mean, I get what people mean when they say that, but it’s ill-informed. This from a year ago: