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This cartoon from The Seattle Times illustrates how America's economic pizza is actually sliced per capita, highlighting the massive disparity between the Top 1%, the merely wealthy, the upper middle class, and the lower 50%.

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[-] Chev@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

Don't let perfect be in the way of better.

[-] Steve@communick.news 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I'm not.
I'm asking people to not treat better as the solution; They way they do with rent controls and school loan forgiveness. Buying locally is fine to do, for you in your life, but it has no effect on the larger problem. Too many people pretend it does.

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