And... It's getting worse!

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David Horsey nails it as always.

@wellingtonrock A rising tide lifts all boats not tied to the pier.
@wellingtonrock This is how I feel every time the WH posts some blurb about how great the economy is recovering.

@wellingtonrock Much of the imbalance is down to billionaire media liars and owners.

Humanity isn’t capable of fixing the problem because it IS the problem.

@wellingtonrock To make this visual metaphor fair to reality the corporate exec would need to be several hundred pounds and a single mother would be doing a bulk of the lifting.

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It’s called capitalism…

@wellingtonrock this is messed up... why is Drew Carey standing on that guy
@wellingtonrock
this is the perfect opportunity to install windfall taxes and fund a UBI so ALL Americans can cover their basic needs and more. Such a plan would not make a single wealthy person become not wealthy, it would only remove the gross excess of wealth wrongly accumulated off the backs of ordinary workers.
@wellingtonrock @chjara black and white political cartoon that's not absurdly right-wing? wow
@wellingtonrock except that this is measuably not true. Inflation adjusted income of middle and lower class people has not been stagnant
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA646N
Median Personal Income in the United States

Graph and download economic data for Median Personal Income in the United States (MEPAINUSA646N) from 1974 to 2023 about personal income, personal, median, income, and USA.

@valleyforge
A graph of income growth for rich folks would show 10 the gradient of that one, and actually stay AHEAD of inflation.
@wellingtonrock this graph is accounting for inflation
@wellingtonrock A rising tide raises all yachts