even if you don't read the rest of the thread, this toot and the one before it are stark, absolute food for thought
even "top earners" are struggling
because *the people running the circus* are only throwing you bread crusts for your work
having a wall of geeks between you and an enemy is the new lorded feudal castle; this is the new feudalism and it mostly benefits the several dozen people literally at 1% of 1%
the world's economy is hollowed out and thinning at best
long thread: The Truth About The American Middle Class
In American Culture we have 5 socio-economic classes. The Poor, The Working-Class, the Middle Class, the Upper-Middle, and the Upper Class; with a recent addition of 1%ers. Culturally, we say the Middle Class is who is important, is the majority, and everyone except for The Poor think they're middle class, though when we get into numbers that's less-so. The cultural delineation of a Middle Class income is about $40k/year to $75k/year