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lol. lmao, even. The economy doesn't "suck", it's rigged.

- Wage stagnation in Nine Charts: https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/

- Home prices are rising faster than wages: https://usafacts.org/data-projects/housing-vs-wages

- World's richest people (0.001%) now own 11% of global wealth, marking the biggest leap in recent history: https://fortune.com/2021/12/07/worlds-richest-inequality-ric...

- Richest 1% gained $6,500,000,000,000 in wealth last year: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/01/richest-one-percent-gained-t...

- 50 Years of shrinking union membership, in one map (from 33% to 10%): https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/23/385843576/50-y...



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