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Who will buy your services if you fire us all?
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The top 10% of earners account for 50% of consumer spending.
As long as that’s the case nobody cares if anyone else can afford anything.
History has many examples of what happens where there is no middle class, it's not pretty
Remember when the future was so bright you had to wear shades?
Pepperidge Farms remembers
Sounds good. When?
Later on the top 1% will start to extract all wealth from the 1-10% class. Then the 0.1% will do the same. Concentration of wealth will continue.
Hell yeah. K-shaped economy embodying the core value of “fuck everyone else because I got mine.”