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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]" 30s buying million + dollar homes, people who are 40 years old and already 401(k) millionaires, people who have funded their future kids' college education "

That me but I'm self-made. My parents came to the United States as immigrants with $5 in their pocket. I learned hard work from them and started working at very early age and continue to do so today at the age of 41. Nothing was handed to us, no inheritance, no nothing. A lot of folks don't understand what they have here in the United States. It truly is the land of opportunity. A lof  of us were not born with a gold spoon and have actually worked really hard for where we are today! [/quote]

Great. Awesome for you. None of what you said contradicts at all the reality that you are not struggling the way that millions of people in this country are struggling. The ideal that this is "the land of opportunities" is inaccurate. There are a lot of opportunities. There are also a lot of systems that trap people in poverty. I also didn't have any of the things that you didn't have when I was growing up. I worked for everything I have, starting when I was 15 years old. But I also understand that there are a lot of people who could work 20 hours a day and still not have a meaningfully different life than their parents or grandparents.

Your success does not mean that American meritocracy is real. Your success does not mean that this country does not have a moral wealth crisis. [/quote]

The people who made big money in this pandemic are the billionaires: Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg.
The problem in America is billionaires: Koch, Murdoch, DeVos, Walton, Sinclair Smith, Singer, Pope, Uihlein, Wilks.

Don’t confuse the merely wealthy with the stinking rich.

Lawyers and writers and doctors make less money than they have in the past.

Billionaires have way, way, way more money than they had in the past. And they’re using it to buy our politics and destroy the country from the inside.[/quote]

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