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The Servant Economy: Where America's Elite is Sending the Middle Class
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    Inflating apartment prices allows to hide economy issues, so people get less goods for same income.

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  • mitkoomitkoo

    Is there a definition of middle class? Earning 10 times minimum wedge?

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    @mitkoo

    Check this about definitions

    https://www.brookings.edu/research/defining-the-middle-class-cash-credentials-or-culture/

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    Gen Z issues

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    During the pandemic, the wealth of the ten richest people in the world, including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, more than doubled to $1.5 trillion. Thanks to skyrocketing profits, they have become six times richer than the poorest 3.1 billion people on our planet, according to The Independent, citing a new study.

    A report by the British charity Oxfam shows that since March 2020, a new billionaire has appeared in the world almost daily. At the same time, another 160 million people fell below the poverty line during this period.

    The ranks of the super-rich have swelled, the organization says, thanks to abundant financial stimulus that has spurred stocks higher. At the same time, poor countries have suffered disproportionately from COVID due to unequal access to vaccines, which mainly went to first world countries.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Consumer debt jumped 11% year-on-year in November. It was the biggest single-month jump in consumer debt in 20 years. Total consumer debt now stands at over $4.41 trillion. And that doesn’t include mortgages.

    Revolving debt – primarily credit card balances – grew by a staggering 23.4% year-on-year in November. That was the biggest increase since 1998.

    More debt means more... prosperity.

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    Rich are feeling good

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    Just 18% of consumers said their wages were keeping pace with the higher cost of living.

    Naturally, those with household incomes of $100,000 or more were better able to cope with inflation that hit a fresh 40-year high of 7.9%. Higher earners were about three times as likely to say their wages had kept pace with inflation, at 31%, said Melissa Bearden, head of consumer intelligence for Capital One. While 30% of higher earners said they got a non-performance-based raise or bonus over the past three months, just 10% of lower earners said that.

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