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7. We do not have the data to say. Plus to be anyone in life you need

Mon Sep 11, 2023, 01:12 PM

Sep 2023

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a smartphone or a computer and a contract. So basic living has gotten more expensive. We didn't have to have those things to be a person who was part of the country back then. But you get left out if you are not connected. That is the last thing people without money need. A smart phone is way more expensive than an old fashioned land line.

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30 yrs later, bottom 50% now have half the wealth they used to (#AdriftBook) [View all] applegrove Sep 2023 OP

And West Virginia went from reliably blue to deep red Zambero Sep 2023 #1

This is the source of every political problem we have today. Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2023 #2

Yep. rubbersole Sep 2023 #3

I agree. Completely. shrike3 Sep 2023 #8

Isn't it 2% of a larger pie ? Not that that makes it better, the top few % benefit even more. nt eppur_se_muova Sep 2023 #4

We do not have the data to say. Plus to be anyone in life you need applegrove Sep 2023 #7

One of the outcomes of which is Prairie_Seagull Sep 2023 #5

You mean like Elon Musk overriding the US DoD in Ukraine? DBoon Sep 2023 #6

Exactly. nt Prairie_Seagull Sep 2023 #9

This is the raison d'etre of the senseandsensibility Sep 2023 #10