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[โ€“] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 20 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

They widened the definition of middle class in order to mask the amount of actual poor people. I like This video of how people actually use their money. Supposedly 20% of people make 25k a year ๐Ÿ˜ฑ

"The upper class: keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class: pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there...just to scare the shit out of the middle class." -George Carlin'

[โ€“] turtletracks@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago

50k is hardly a livable wage, let alone 25k. It's absurd that people can ever think a full time job shouldn't pay the bills