• Hacksaw@lemmy.ca
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    Don’t compare the income of the rich and the poor. We use our take home pay to buy groceries. They use their take home profits to buy our country out from under us, to buy our land and our companies, to buy our politicians, to buy our time. We are not the same.

    • andallthat@lemmy.world
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      yes, 3.6% less profits for most of us means “should I pay the electricity bill and starve for a couple of days?”. For Ronald McDonald it probably means “here’s another round of layoffs to streamline operational efficiency or whatever”