VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 6 days agoWhile millions face cuts, superyacht sales are somehow explodingwww.alternet.orgexternal-linkmessage-square81linkfedilinkarrow-up1555arrow-down14cross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
arrow-up1551arrow-down1external-linkWhile millions face cuts, superyacht sales are somehow explodingwww.alternet.orgVetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 6 days agomessage-square81linkfedilinkcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
minus-squareFluidBeef@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48·5 days agoIt’s not “somehow” - the real economy is tanking precisely because the oligarchs have got so efficient at skimming the top off.
minus-squarebstix@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up25·5 days agoSkimming the top, yeah, but the “top” is 99.99%.
minus-squareTrump Rapes Kids@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·5 days agoThey’d probably quote that and portray it as you saying 99.99% of people are in the “top” now.
It’s not “somehow” - the real economy is tanking precisely because the oligarchs have got so efficient at skimming the top off.
Skimming the top, yeah, but the “top” is 99.99%.
They’d probably quote that and portray it as you saying 99.99% of people are in the “top” now.