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[quote=TheManWithAUsername]If your HHI is less than $500k, you're not in the top percentile, and are therefore in the 99% (by income). You may well be like my family: far luckier than the people on that site, with lots of high-class problems.

As PPs have said, that means that you are one job loss and one medical crisis from ruin. If you're lucky, like us you have family and friends who would keep you off the street, but that's your only safety net.

If you think that it's OK that even we well-off live with that basic insecurity, and tens of millions live in the actual ruin, while, e.g., the 400 richest have more than the bottom 50% of the population combined, then these demonstrations shouldn't interest you.

If you think it's OK that in the richest country of the world millions of children experience hunger and millions experience other basic insecurities and deprivations because of their mistake in being born to poor and/or even foolish parents, then these demonstrations shouldn't interest you.

If you think that every person with these difficulties should just keep plugging away while powerful forces far outside their reach interfere with the efforts, instead of directly confronting those forces, then these demonstrations may actually annoy you.

I'm grateful that I'm not in financial ruin, that my children aren't deprived of anything important, and that the financial oligarchy is so far only annoying and disgusting to me, as opposed to something destroying me.[/quote]

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