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i collect $3737 a month tax free from the government because of my military service so think againYou are a slave to financial system. There is no way out
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i collect $3737 a month tax free from the government because of my military service so think againYou are a slave to financial system. There is no way out
How many lives did you ruin to get the luxury?i collect $3737 a month tax free from the government because of my military service so think again![]()
None directly, unfortunately. Do their lives matter if they're african/arab?How many lives did you ruin to get the luxury?![]()
I just want to point at that 1% is literally the middle class. and not usually millionaires & billionaires.What I saw was that median wage growth was 3.3% or something (below inflation), but that the bottom 10% had 7.6% wage growth and the bottom 25% had 5.4%. This could be solely due to minimum wage hikes, however.
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The top 25% must be doing pretty badly, if there is (or was) stellar wage growth for the top 1% or 0.1%.
These are stats from a New York Times article, though.
Source Video (roughly the 14:20 mark)
EDIT: If that's just the percent change over 5 years, then no one's doing well at all, and both The New York Times and the YouTuber who showed this article have some explaining to do. I would assume it's yearly, though, or maybe monthly...
Lol what? 40K doesn't even put you in the top 50%, but you are correct to say that there's a huge disparity of wealth between the people in the top 1%. It could mean the difference between making 250K a year or 250M a year. Yet for some mysterious reason I can't find a contemporary chart that breaks it down past 250K.I just want to point at that 1% is literally the middle class. and not usually millionaires & billionaires.
if i'm at the bottom 1% mark of the usa how much money do I make anually? like what? maybe 40k$?
You forgot one thing, there are like 1-5% of the players just estimating are the headliner in a professional sports league that draw the crowds, the rest are the 1-5 year players that earn something like a neurosurgeon but for a few years but ultimatley forgotten. Even the forgotten ones are like 1 in 500K. Those headliners are 1 in 10 million. So, we're talking at the extreme top of ability here.Here's some actually useful information about how money works: the amount of money you get in life is determined by what you do, who you do it for, your ability to do it, and the ease of replacing you. All of this assumes you play by the rules and aren't a useless eater in Washington.
As an example, brain surgeons make six figures because they provide a needed service and are hard to replace. They don't make more because they only provide services to people who need it. Football players, by contrast, provide an image that is replicated on sports paraphernalia, draws advertisers for games, and draws people to stadiums (and the stadium's associated economy); they sit at the center of a multibillion dollar web, and their eight figure deals are both an acknowledgement of how they drive that economy, and their cut of the profits. This also cuts another way. Ferrari makes luxury sports cars for the uber rich; they don't sell a lot of cars relative to Honda or Ford, but what they do sell commands top price.
This also works if you have no morals. Genshiro Kawamoto bought up prime real estate in California and Hawaii to rent out at a premium. Scummy, yes, but also quite lucrative.
The applicable moral is this: either provide an excellent product/service for the maximum number of people possible, or provide and charge a lot for an irreplaceable product/service for the super rich. If you're unable or unwilling to do so, invest in a company that is doing so, bearing in mind that your reward will be proportionate to the size of your investment.
Disclaimer: not a financial advisor
He's wrong?convinced that it is only ever going to get worse for absolutely everyone except those who already have money