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The 3 million richest Americans have greater combined wealth than 291 million (www.cbsnews.com)

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[–] ElZoido@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's more like the top 0.0000009% own more than the bottom 87%. The whole 1% thing is really drastically underselling the issue of the scale of inequality.

[–] audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago

Agreed, but the data they’re citing doesn’t show that. It does show what I commented.