Wealth concentration today is 3x worse than at the height of the gilded age.

it HAS destroyED America

Why are they banned?

Conservatives insist this is the only way. As long as conservatives exist, the normal people will never be permitted to regulate capitalism or charge billionaires with crimes.

We must delete the foot-soldiers to defeat the billionaire class.

Hyper Rich muthafuckas down voting. Happy for ya.

Very funny to see this at the top of my feed when the poster is banned.

I take issue with the lower class being illustrated as overweight

Ive read the Seattle Times for decades.Horsey has gotten better. He's had some really bad takes in the past.

No, the people with crumbs STILL doing nothing despite having nothing to lose will allow America to be destroyed.

Capitalism is just feudalism with more math.

I cannot stop seeing this idea overlaid on every thing that I see or do or hear about. Every action is filtered through the lens of it being extractive and manipulative.

I feel extremely stressed because I see the bars of the cage and no one else around me wants to acknowledge them.

I do not like this. I would like it to stop please.

Yes and the middle class who think they have money keep voting for this.

I like "this is not a joke". I really appreciate anybody trying to put into perspective how insanely unequal things are by using real numbers where possible.

The problem is that things are so unequal that it's just about impossible to illustrate. For example, the "Top 1%" label is perfectly accurate, but doesn't illustrate both how small and also how large the top 1% is. 1% is still 3.5 million people, which is large. It isn't just Bezos and Musk. It's also guys who own car dealerships.

OTOH, it's also small. There are 4 people in that illustration, and the "top 1%" should really be 1 guy in a room of 100.

It's also hard to remember that the "lower 50%" isn't just "the poors". It's literally half the people in the country. It's not 1 guy at a table with 4 people who is only getting crumbs, it's half the people at that table getting crumbs. I would bet that at least 80% of Americans think they're richer than the bottom 50%.

That's also without trying to deal with the issue of "1 billion dollars", which just isn't a number that people have much ability to picture. 1 billion feels like it's similar to "1 million", but it's not.

As a top 1 percenter, I feel seriously offended by the suggestion that I'd sit anywhere close peasants, let alone at the same table.

/s obviously, because I wouldn't be on lemmy if I was anywhere close the top 1%

Financial obesity is neurotoxic, an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

How about a different kinda slicing?

Little bit of data for you:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distribute/chart/#range:1989.4,2026.2

why a ban?