this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2024
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[–] Lodra 15 points 4 months ago

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It’s easy to understand how income and taxes affect my life. For many jobs, it’s very difficult to understand the value of my labor in a bigger picture.

I think most people can’t think abstractly and thus struggle to see larger interactions like how money flows through an economy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are there any good recent statistics papers looking at the rate-of-exploitation in recent years?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

there's some indirect stats represented by the increasing wealth transfer https://archive.ph/88KG1

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because most of them aspire to be one of the folks that collects the green segments from others. Even though they never will.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

all the temporarily inconvenienced billionaires among us