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Americans are slowly realizing they're living in a plutocracy (lemmy.ml)

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[-] Fancy_Gecko@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 week ago

do most americans believe that their ruling class ever gave a shit about them ?

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 week ago

Seems like a lot of Americans genuinely believe they live in a democracy.

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Worse, it's the Temporarily embarrassed billionaire -Most Americans think they are or will one day be apart of the top 10% of the top 1%. They don't get that upward socioeconomic mobility has stalled out in the past twenty years.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 days ago

Yeah there's a lot of that going on too.

[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

I know so many people like this. No self awareness. And they think they are geniuses because they read edgelord Facebook news.

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