>

Well by definition wealthy means not having an issue with disposable income so.... It would be weird if they did slow down.
Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy. >

They all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits. >

My old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven. >

And yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court. >

We can't allow handouts! >

Can't allow handouts to the poor. >

Work in design and construction.
More mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades. >

I hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw. >

/r/McMansionHell >

In case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference. >

Just the past few years? >

okay especially the past few years >

Glad the wealth redistribution is still going strong >

Just wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient. >

Yeah, patient in a hospital. >

With healthcare costs these days? I don't think so! >

Well no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet. >

Recessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money >

Everytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we  get the perennial "luxury items defy economic downturn" news stories.  Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run. >

The ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye >

Always remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have. >

But if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us. >

When is the trickle coming? >

You need to suck harder >

I sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars. >

For the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even. >

I am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in. >

Rich get richer...
Different world and I'm not interested beyond this post. >

At east the folks who build them have steady jobs. >

Something something "record profits". >

Wealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly? >

If anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.
I honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad. >

Unfortunately, wealthy people have the ears of politicians so wealth tax is something most of us wish but not likely to happen. >

They don’t just have their ears… they are the politicians. Especially in the Conservative party. >

All that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do. >

how nice for them
and next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on 
glad their cars are nice though >

Yeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people >

Yeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down. >

millionaires are the new middle class >

The middle class is a myth. >

There always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars. >

Remember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough” >

If I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes. >

It's going to trickle down any day now. >

In other news the sun rose again... >

Look up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. 
The 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade. >

Why did they? >

Who the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.
Why are we focused on this? >

If the wealthy are spending more on luxury goods than ever before then I guess they can share a little more of the pie with us low folk before they get too fat and we gobble them right up. >

tbh the more luxury shit they buy the more it becomes accessible to everyone else. In ancient Mesopotamia pillows were the highest sign of luxury. In the middle ages it was obesity. 
Both of which are very common and accessible now lol >

Yeah that's not how it works 😂. >

you wanna explain or you just wanna be condescending? it’s true, name one luxury item in history (not modern) that hasn’t turned into something affordable for the vast majority of people >

Technology trickles downwards. Money doesn’t. An average person can have better tech than a king did in the Middle Ages, but it must be framed against the cost of living. The king was never broke or had concerns about next month’s rent or had anything repossessed. >

if you’re having shit repossessed you’re most likely not living within your means. Even if you’re broke and barely paying rent you’re still living waaaay better than a king in the middle ages >


Even if you’re broke and barely paying rent you’re still living waaaay better than a king in the middle ages

The king had much better quality of life, because he didn't have the stresses that someone who barely makes rent does. This is actually something we can measure, and it affects your physical health and is a wildly important factor in the well-being of a population.
Having good technology isn't a parameter, if you're stressed about your life and money situation. >

ahh yes the king who has no stress ruling a nation, had no modern medicine, therapy, leisure, running water, or air conditioning had a much better life than even among the poorest Americans. Good one bro >


who has no stress ruling a nation

Those are measurably different kinds of stresses.

had no modern medicine, therapy, leisure, running water, or air conditioning

By all accounts, your cell phone has more compute power than the entire US military had in 1980, but that doesn't prevent you from being homeless or prevent you from being denied health care, because you can't afford it.

had a much better life

The king had a much better quality of life. This is an important distinction, which you have ignored so far.
It is because of quality of life that developed nations are concerned with sociological issues like universal health care, pensions, basic incomes, proper taxation, human rights and things like that, which aren't directly associated with technology.
Interestingly enough, these are all things that Americans tend to have big problems with, perhaps because they equate technological progress with societal progress, but those things are in fact disconnected.
Ease of access to technology does not mean a good quality of life. >

I dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three. >

Really? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade. >

Maybe we need to help them out of all that money... A little South African justice. >

Is it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble? >

Thanks to trickle down economics I was able to purchase a Hot Wheels version after saving for each month of 2022. >

Does Hot Wheels even make a Rolls? >

Rolls Royce makes turbine engines for commercial aircraft too. Not just luxury cars. >

In most rpg type games I play, I eventually figure out the monetary systems' exploits and stack enough to make the currency meaningless, and go get all the best gear. It's no coincidence that I usually lose interest in the game altogether shortly after that point. >

Have you considered becoming a philanthropist and starting charities to help fight goblin illiteracy and provide crypts for homeless undead? Not all heroes kill lich lords, some donate to spay and neuter rescue werewolf adoptions. >

Sign of the times. Just like the 1920’s. >

Inflation makes them richer.
War makes them richer.
Pandemics make them richer.
The whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. 
We should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent. >

Well, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people. >

I have no practical solution except at the ballot box. >

Ah yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US. >

Reminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy. >

Gee it's almost like rich people don't have real problems >

The average price of new car sales keeps rising not b/c they’re getting more expensive, but because the poor are getting priced out of even budget vehicles. >

Their "record sales" was a whooping 6,021 cars worldwide in 2022.
That's how many cars GM sells in a day. >

Those 6,021 Rolls-Royce cars are worth 3 billion dollars. Wonder what their profit margins are. >

Productivity has gone up steadily the last 50 years, but people are getting paid less and less adjusting for inflation. At the same time lots of companies are running tight budgets.
All that wealth missing from the system is being sucked out by these people. They are literally stealing from all of us. >

The middle classes so didn't slow down in spending. >

Waelth is being redistributed, but in the wrong direction. >

But inflation. Poor people. Stop spending. >

There was a hot tub shortage during the pandemic. Also hard to find a contractor to do home rem9dels. 
Lots of money out there and it isnt just the rich that have it. >

My only solace is most of these people live miserable lives - they just hide it.  Imagine having all the coin and still being a miserable insufferable PoS(Musk, Bezos).  If these people were truly happy they'd walk off into the sunset and we'd (thankfully) would rarely hear from them. >

Pretty sure this is the definition of 'copium'. >

Us old folks call them 'sour grapes'. >

The dialectics are in motion >

Everyone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere. >

Well they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah. >

Just the system working exactly as it was designed to.  Nothing to see here folks. >

They have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class.  It isn't surprising. >

Why would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity. >

Super cute. One of those cars could feed and house a lot of people. Who cares about the poors tho, we gotta pull up our boot straps if we want a million. This is gross >

I see the system continues to work as intended. >

It's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔. >

This can't last. I hope they enjoy their short-sightedness. >

These folks never looked at the price tag to begin with. Inflation doesn’t matter to them. >

You're poor because you rather complain on reddit >

Why would they slow down? They have all our money >

Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy. >

They all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits. >

My old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven. >

And yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court. >

We can't allow handouts! >

Can't allow handouts to the poor. >

"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!" - a Facebook post from a friend.  Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven. >

Instructions unclear.  Joined the military then went to graduate school.  Now I have 100k in debt. >

How did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt. >

Work in design and construction.
More mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades. >

I hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw. >

/r/McMansionHell >

Glad the wealth redistribution is still going strong >

Just wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient. >

Yeah, patient in a hospital. >

With healthcare costs these days? I don't think so! >

In case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference. >

Just the past few years? >

okay especially the past few years >

Well no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet. >

Recessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money >

Everytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we  get the perennial "luxury items defy economic downturn" news stories.  Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run. >

The ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye >

Absolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.
I'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor. >

I am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in. >

I sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars. >

For the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even. >

When is the trickle coming? >

You need to suck harder >

Always remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have. >

But if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us. >

Rich get richer...
Different world and I'm not interested beyond this post. >

Look up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. 
The 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade. >

Why did they? >

Wealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly? >

If anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.
I honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad. >

Dude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏 >

I mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine.  
We don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.
My partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities.  And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does.  
That’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can.  Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks.  To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index.  But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me. >

Why does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax >

how nice for them
and next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on 
glad their cars are nice though >

Yeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people >

Republicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no. >

Yeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down. >

Is it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble? >

millionaires are the new middle class >

The middle class is a myth. >

There always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars. >

Remember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough” >

If I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes. >

At east the folks who build them have steady jobs. >

they employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees. >

It's going to trickle down any day now. >

All that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do. >

Something something "record profits". >

In other news the sun rose again... >

Why would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity. >

It's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔. >

Trickle down economics right >

Who the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.
Why are we focused on this? >

If the wealthy are spending more on luxury goods than ever before then I guess they can share a little more of the pie with us low folk before they get too fat and we gobble them right up. >

tbh the more luxury shit they buy the more it becomes accessible to everyone else. In ancient Mesopotamia pillows were the highest sign of luxury. In the middle ages it was obesity. 
Both of which are very common and accessible now lol >

Yeah that's not how it works 😂. >

you wanna explain or you just wanna be condescending? it’s true, name one luxury item in history (not modern) that hasn’t turned into something affordable for the vast majority of people >

Technology trickles downwards. Money doesn’t. An average person can have better tech than a king did in the Middle Ages, but it must be framed against the cost of living. The king was never broke or had concerns about next month’s rent or had anything repossessed. >

if you’re having shit repossessed you’re most likely not living within your means. Even if you’re broke and barely paying rent you’re still living waaaay better than a king in the middle ages >


Even if you’re broke and barely paying rent you’re still living waaaay better than a king in the middle ages

The king had much better quality of life, because he didn't have the stresses that someone who barely makes rent does. This is actually something we can measure, and it affects your physical health and is a wildly important factor in the well-being of a population.
Having good technology isn't a parameter, if you're stressed about your life and money situation. >

ahh yes the king who has no stress ruling a nation, had no modern medicine, therapy, leisure, running water, or air conditioning had a much better life than even among the poorest Americans. Good one bro >


who has no stress ruling a nation

Those are measurably different kinds of stresses.

had no modern medicine, therapy, leisure, running water, or air conditioning

By all accounts, your cell phone has more compute power than the entire US military had in 1980, but that doesn't prevent you from being homeless or prevent you from being denied health care, because you can't afford it.

had a much better life

The king had a much better quality of life. This is an important distinction, which you have ignored so far.
It is because of quality of life that developed nations are concerned with sociological issues like universal health care, pensions, basic incomes, proper taxation, human rights and things like that, which aren't directly associated with technology.
Interestingly enough, these are all things that Americans tend to have big problems with, perhaps because they equate technological progress with societal progress, but those things are in fact disconnected.
Ease of access to technology does not mean a good quality of life. >

Inflation makes them richer.
War makes them richer.
Pandemics make them richer.
The whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. 
We should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent. >

Well, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people. >

I have no practical solution except at the ballot box. >

Ah yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US. >

Reminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy. >

The dialectics are in motion >

I dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three. >

Really? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade. >

Everyone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere. >

Well they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah. >

They have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class.  It isn't surprising. >

This can't last. I hope they enjoy their short-sightedness. >

These folks never looked at the price tag to begin with. Inflation doesn’t matter to them. >

I live in Phnom Penh Cambodia. You would not believe how many rich Chinese there are here rolling around in Rolls Royce and Bentleys. >

Meanwhile normal ppl.. we're glad to see gas prices are finally going down.. >

They have stole all the wealth so this checks out. >

Gee it's almost like rich people don't have real problems >

Maybe we need to help them out of all that money... A little South African justice. >

In most rpg type games I play, I eventually figure out the monetary systems' exploits and stack enough to make the currency meaningless, and go get all the best gear. It's no coincidence that I usually lose interest in the game altogether shortly after that point. >

Have you considered becoming a philanthropist and starting charities to help fight goblin illiteracy and provide crypts for homeless undead? Not all heroes kill lich lords, some donate to spay and neuter rescue werewolf adoptions. >

The average price of new car sales keeps rising not b/c they’re getting more expensive, but because the poor are getting priced out of even budget vehicles. >

Waelth is being redistributed, but in the wrong direction. >

Thanks to trickle down economics I was able to purchase a Hot Wheels version after saving for each month of 2022. >

Does Hot Wheels even make a Rolls? >

Why would they slow down? They have all our money >

Productivity has gone up steadily the last 50 years, but people are getting paid less and less adjusting for inflation. At the same time lots of companies are running tight budgets.
All that wealth missing from the system is being sucked out by these people. They are literally stealing from all of us. >

Sign of the times. Just like the 1920’s. >

The middle classes so didn't slow down in spending. >

But inflation. Poor people. Stop spending. >

There was a hot tub shortage during the pandemic. Also hard to find a contractor to do home rem9dels. 
Lots of money out there and it isnt just the rich that have it. >

Their "record sales" was a whooping 6,021 cars worldwide in 2022.
That's how many cars GM sells in a day. >

Those 6,021 Rolls-Royce cars are worth 3 billion dollars. Wonder what their profit margins are. >

Well by definition wealthy means not having an issue with disposable income so.... It would be weird if they did slow down. >

Super cute. One of those cars could feed and house a lot of people. Who cares about the poors tho, we gotta pull up our boot straps if we want a million. This is gross >

Well yea they’ve been getting rich by squeezing the public and raiding the treasury. Thanks Congress. >

My only solace is most of these people live miserable lives - they just hide it.  Imagine having all the coin and still being a miserable insufferable PoS(Musk, Bezos).  If these people were truly happy they'd walk off into the sunset and we'd (thankfully) would rarely hear from them. >

Pretty sure this is the definition of 'copium'. >

Us old folks call them 'sour grapes'. >

You're poor because you rather complain on reddit >

Just the system working exactly as it was designed to.  Nothing to see here folks. >

I see the system continues to work as intended. >

If you’re wealthy, money is just a number… detached from everyday living. So not surprised. >

Of course not, they’re richer than ever! >

All those DinkDoink millionaires… >

Why would they slow down their spending?? >

A lot of cheap credit was available the last 3 years. >

Of course not. All of the money is "trickling" uphill. >

Why would the wealthy slow down? Pretty much every company had record high profits for 3 years. >

Here I am wondering why the fuck romaine lettuce is 9 dollars. >

Taking this article with a grain of salt most RR owners replace their cars every 5-10 years and most are replacing their sedans with the more comfortable and practical cullinan >

We should expand their tax loopholes - GOP. >

Pandemic was great financially for the wealthy. >

They all got their phoney PPP loans that all got forgiven, big businesses, hedge funds, car dealerships,anyone with any kind of business and an attorney made out like bandits. >

My old boss cut costs, closed for 1 day, had a record profit, and got 1.5 million in ppp money forgiven. >

And yet student loan forgiveness is held up in the Supreme Court. >

We can't allow handouts! >

Can't allow handouts to the poor. >

"You're disrespecting all those who worked hard or served in the military to pay for their education!" - a Facebook post from a friend.  Nevermind that her husband got 62k in ppp loans forgiven. >

Instructions unclear.  Joined the military then went to graduate school.  Now I have 100k in debt. >

How did you pull that off, did you run out of GI Bill money? I got two MA degrees and have 0 debt. >

It paid for undergrad.  But the expensive graduate degree was expensive. >

Work in design and construction.
More mansion-sized residences went up during the pandemic than any other time I can recall in two decades. >

I hate those GD things. Great architecture and windows but it feels like a house of straw. >

/r/McMansionHell >

Glad the wealth redistribution is still going strong >

Just wait bro it'll trickle down soon bro you just gotta be patient. >

Yeah, patient in a hospital. >

With healthcare costs these days? I don't think so! >

In case no one has been paying attention the past few years has been nothing BUT wealth transference. >

Just the past few years? >

okay especially the past few years >

Well no shit. They haven't run out of our money yet. >

Recessions are just opportunities for the wealthy to buy cheap stocks and properties and eventually make even more money >

Everytime the economy gets ugly for the 99%, we  get the perennial "luxury items defy economic downturn" news stories.  Like you said, they aren't hurt in any way by plunging property values, or stocks, pennies on the dollar works great for them in the long run. >

The ultra wealthy could lose 99% of their wealth and still afford a Rolls-Royce without blinking an eye >

Absolutely. Just because they can they must be fucking assholes.
I'm sure no one here with that kind of money wouldnt do the same but instead give all the money to the poor. >

I am ever so happy that the aristocracy is achieving ever more. They shall all survive and thrive while the proletariat is ever the soil that their plants shall grow in. >

I sell to extremely wealthy people. Economic slowdowns will affect whether they buy another $10 million villa in Tuscany, not minor purchases like cars. >

For the cash rich ones economic slowdowns mean they can buy more villas, even. >

When is the trickle coming? >

You need to suck harder >

Always remember kids, the less money we have, the more money they have. >

But if we don't give everything to those at the top there won't be enough to trickle down to the rest of us. >

Rich get richer...
Different world and I'm not interested beyond this post. >

Look up what the media stopped and started talking about in 2012 after law enforcement and feds were used to shut down Occupy Wall Street. 
The 1% has successfully kept us distracted for over a decade. >

Why did they? >

Wealthy people already have more than enough money to cushion them from recession so why should they care enough to spend frugally or responsibly? >

If anything the spend more, my FIL is in the middle millions and is excited for a recession because he wants to buy a bunch of lakeside property.
I honestly despise wealthy people, we need a wealth tax so fucking bad. >

Dude why do you have wealthy people aren’t you one of them and that is awesome 👏 >

I mean I am well off for sure, but I wouldn’t consider my partners families money mine.  
We don’t ask her parents for anything, and won’t see any of that money until they die, and her father will probably outlive us because he’s too stubborn to die, lmao.
My partner makes good money but donates like half of it to local charities.  And our money all gets taxed out the ass since it’s income and not compounding wealth. I’d barely consider us “Rich” more upper middle class. But both of us could work until we are 100 and not have the money her father does.  
That’s wealthy, his money makes more money every month than we do in a year. And he pays less tax on it than we do on our incomes. Those are the people I hate, because the system is so broken in their favour and yet they still do everything they can to further break it, or manipulate it in anyway they can.  Now I play nice around him out of respect for my partner, and the last thing I need is a spiteful multimillionaire crushing every future job opportunity I ever have since he knows seemingly every CEO in the damn city. Instead I try to bring up philanthropy or try to promote ideas like paying staff better, etc. and hope that maybe something sticks.  To give him credit he did have his company give out significantly bigger Christmas bonuses last year and tied wage increases to the government inflation index.  But he could easily do more which is what frustrates me. >

Why does your partner send so much to charities like isn’t 10 percent good and second aren’t charities a write off so your partner doesn’t have to pay too much tax >

how nice for them
and next the republicans they bought will cut SS/Medicare just to pile on 
glad their cars are nice though >

Yeah cuz Dems are sooo mich better and totally work for the people >

Republicans gave out PPP loans explicitly with no oversight and intending to forgive them from the get go. Democrats want to forgive student loans crushing the working class and Republicans are standing in the way saying no. >

Yeah. This is what we need to gauge our economic state. The people that aren’t monetarily walking a knifes edge are still buying expensive shit. Better raise interest rates to slow them down. >

Is it time to eat them yet? Or is everyone still too scared to get in trouble? >

millionaires are the new middle class >

The middle class is a myth. >

There always has to be a middle. Sigh. I am middle class (and a millionaire). Went to super market yesterday and parked next to a maserati suv. Like how do people have so much money? My kids walk to their neighborhood public school but I have noticed at least two bentley suv’s dropping off kids. I guess need to differentiate from all the standard lux cars. >

Remember that video of Bezos driving a Honda Accord and he’s like “it does the job well enough” >

If I had a time machine I’d have sold him a Pinto with disc brakes. >

At east the folks who build them have steady jobs. >

they employ 2,500 people. which is a lot. not to mention local sales and service departments employees. >

It's going to trickle down any day now. >

All that money and the rest of us are just supposed to make do. >

Something something "record profits". >

In other news the sun rose again... >

Why would it slow dpw? They have been milking the poor and middle class dry at every opportunity. >

It's almost like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer 🤔. >

Trickle down economics right >

Who the hell cares? No recession or depression can be bad enough for the wealthy, especially the kind that don't care if they lose a few hundred k, let alone a million or two.
Why are we focused on this? >

If the wealthy are spending more on luxury goods than ever before then I guess they can share a little more of the pie with us low folk before they get too fat and we gobble them right up. >

tbh the more luxury shit they buy the more it becomes accessible to everyone else. In ancient Mesopotamia pillows were the highest sign of luxury. In the middle ages it was obesity. 
Both of which are very common and accessible now lol >

Yeah that's not how it works 😂. >

you wanna explain or you just wanna be condescending? it’s true, name one luxury item in history (not modern) that hasn’t turned into something affordable for the vast majority of people >

Technology trickles downwards. Money doesn’t. An average person can have better tech than a king did in the Middle Ages, but it must be framed against the cost of living. The king was never broke or had concerns about next month’s rent or had anything repossessed. >

if you’re having shit repossessed you’re most likely not living within your means. Even if you’re broke and barely paying rent you’re still living waaaay better than a king in the middle ages >


Even if you’re broke and barely paying rent you’re still living waaaay better than a king in the middle ages

The king had much better quality of life, because he didn't have the stresses that someone who barely makes rent does. This is actually something we can measure, and it affects your physical health and is a wildly important factor in the well-being of a population.
Having good technology isn't a parameter, if you're stressed about your life and money situation. >

ahh yes the king who has no stress ruling a nation, had no modern medicine, therapy, leisure, running water, or air conditioning had a much better life than even among the poorest Americans. Good one bro >


who has no stress ruling a nation

Those are measurably different kinds of stresses.

had no modern medicine, therapy, leisure, running water, or air conditioning

By all accounts, your cell phone has more compute power than the entire US military had in 1980, but that doesn't prevent you from being homeless or prevent you from being denied health care, because you can't afford it.

had a much better life

The king had a much better quality of life. This is an important distinction, which you have ignored so far.
It is because of quality of life that developed nations are concerned with sociological issues like universal health care, pensions, basic incomes, proper taxation, human rights and things like that, which aren't directly associated with technology.
Interestingly enough, these are all things that Americans tend to have big problems with, perhaps because they equate technological progress with societal progress, but those things are in fact disconnected.
Ease of access to technology does not mean a good quality of life. >

Inflation makes them richer.
War makes them richer.
Pandemics make them richer.
The whole world is poorer except the very rich, who are very-much richer. 
We should all be so very angry about this but we are only internet-angry which is impotent. >

Well, what are we going to do? I don't see anyone learning Ninjitsu and finding creative ways to off these people. >

I have no practical solution except at the ballot box. >

Ah yes, the illusion of choice that is voting in the US. >

Reminder: The US isn't even in the top 20 of most democratic countries. It's classified as a flawed democracy. >

The dialectics are in motion >

I dunno. Personally I only bought half as many Rolls-Royce's this year compared to each of the last three. >

Really? I bought 5 times more this year than I did over the last decade. >

Everyone needs to put their money laundry money somewhere. >

Well they pretty much robbed the middle and lower class, so yeah. >

They have all of the money now, having taken everything what used to be the middle class.  It isn't surprising. >

This can't last. I hope they enjoy their short-sightedness. >

These folks never looked at the price tag to begin with. Inflation doesn’t matter to them. >

I live in Phnom Penh Cambodia. You would not believe how many rich Chinese there are here rolling around in Rolls Royce and Bentleys. >

Meanwhile normal ppl.. we're glad to see gas prices are finally going down.. >

They have stole all the wealth so this checks out. >

Gee it's almost like rich people don't have real problems >

Maybe we need to help them out of all that money... A little South African justice. >

In most rpg type games I play, I eventually figure out the monetary systems' exploits and stack enough to make the currency meaningless, and go get all the best gear. It's no coincidence that I usually lose interest in the game altogether shortly after that point. >

Have you considered becoming a philanthropist and starting charities to help fight goblin illiteracy and provide crypts for homeless undead? Not all heroes kill lich lords, some donate to spay and neuter rescue werewolf adoptions. >

The average price of new car sales keeps rising not b/c they’re getting more expensive, but because the poor are getting priced out of even budget vehicles. >

Waelth is being redistributed, but in the wrong direction. >

Thanks to trickle down economics I was able to purchase a Hot Wheels version after saving for each month of 2022. >

Does Hot Wheels even make a Rolls? >

Why would they slow down? They have all our money >

Productivity has gone up steadily the last 50 years, but people are getting paid less and less adjusting for inflation. At the same time lots of companies are running tight budgets.
All that wealth missing from the system is being sucked out by these people. They are literally stealing from all of us. >

Sign of the times. Just like the 1920’s. >

The middle classes so didn't slow down in spending. >

But inflation. Poor people. Stop spending. >

There was a hot tub shortage during the pandemic. Also hard to find a contractor to do home rem9dels. 
Lots of money out there and it isnt just the rich that have it. >

Their "record sales" was a whooping 6,021 cars worldwide in 2022.
That's how many cars GM sells in a day. >

Those 6,021 Rolls-Royce cars are worth 3 billion dollars. Wonder what their profit margins are.