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  • You’re right, it’s about maximum worth.

    J. Paul Getty was the richest person in the 50s and he was worth about a billion dollars. Adjusted for inflation, thats about $14 billion now.

    Elon Musk is 70x richer than that.

    It isn’t about how little the poor have, its about how much the rich hoard. And it always has been.











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    2 months ago

    You’re thinking of mean average salaries. A greater percentage of Americans make minimum wage (or less) than Canadians, and Canadian minimum wage is higher.

    There are a small group of rich people offsetting this notion of “Americans get less public services because they make sooo much more money”

    Edit: my mistake, I was thinking of how many Americans make less than the Canadian minimum wage, because the American minimum wage is so laughably low