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  • juniper [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    4 days ago

    Maybe I’m too sensitive but I hate that we have a new term (K-shaped) for something that has been an integral part of the American economy since plantation slavery.

    Americans Realize They Are Crabs in a BucKKKet Challenge [Impossible]

    • pastalicious [he/him, undecided]@hexbear.net
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      4 days ago

      Bothers me too. It doesn’t agitate any emotion. We aren’t teaching an Econ course, we need to be framing up the actual relations and consequences of an economy where the ultra rich are trying to reach escape velocity before the masses hit the bounce off the bottom and come after them.

    • novibe@lemmy.ml
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      But it’s worse now than ever. We have officially more inequality than in any other part of human history.