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In the last 5 to 10 years everything seems to suck: product's and services quality plummeted, everything from homes to cars to food became really expensive, technology stopped to help us to be something designed to f@ck with us and our money, nobody seems to be able to hold a job anymore, everyone is broke. Life seems worse in general.

Why? Did COVID made this happen? How?

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[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 99 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We don't just let them, we cheer them on. Look at the celebrity worship culture we humans have. If you took away the person and left only their actions, most of us would happily throw the rich into a woodchipper. But they use their money to convince us that they're special and deserve praise, and most of us go along with it because we're sheep.

[–] 7u5k3n@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Pioneer woman.

She's got a huge ranch a huge house a specialty made kitchen just for her show.. works super hard to look blue collar.

It's all crafted to separate you from your money..

[–] GombeenSysadmin@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I found out recently that the land that her ranch sits on is at least adjacent to, if not directly involved in the events shown in Killers of the Flower Moon.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

While I agree her image is at the very least somewhat exaggerated, her net worth probably puts her somewhere in the top 10%. She's not exactly the powerful elite.

[–] beetus@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Rae Drummond has a reported net worth of approx $65m as of last year.

The top 1% of United States net worth starts at $12m. She is just inside the top 0.1% of us net worth which starts at $62m.

[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Hell, her last name alone gives it away.

The Drummond family is one of the wealthiest families in Oklahoma, owning hundreds of thousands of acres of land.

Wealthy enough they have their own Wikipedia page.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummond_family_(Oklahoma)

[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummond_family_(Oklahoma)

She’s married into one of the wealthiest families in Oklahoma.

Completely excluding the tens of millions she herself is worth from her business.