I'll stare forever Joe Biden pulled low/lower middle income earners to new heights, but the top percentiles saw not much and never stopped bitching about it - ThreadSky

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danmynrd.bsky.social • 6 days ago

I'll stare forever Joe Biden pulled low/lower middle income earners to new heights, but the top percentiles saw not much and never stopped bitching about it

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fermispairofsocks.bsky.social•5 days ago

They made FAR more than that in the stock market and asset appreciation though.

vivasisyphus.bsky.social•6 days ago

Really and truly think this was a market conditions thing more than a Biden policy thing.

danmynrd.bsky.social•6 days ago

This real wage growth baby. The treatlers mad the serf class was moving on up

sameoldstory.co•6 days ago

Wasn’t it interesting how suddenly we were suddenly besieged with principled essays about the perils of “tipping culture” at this time

saysceej.bsky.social•6 days ago

I will say that I saw the same thing 25 years ago with basically the same arguments.

sameoldstory.co•6 days ago

It’s not that the arguments were new (or even that they’re all wrong) it’s that they were everywhere all at once, right before we committed national suicide in protest of Doordash rate hikes

overrrrrrr.bsky.social•6 days ago

lots of service jobs in california now pay similar wages to entry level white collar jobs, and i feel like those professionals are furious over the fact that they no longer have people "below" them.

marshmellowpeep.bsky.social•5 days ago

Can’t tell you how many people confidently explained to me how much worse things were and ignored any evidence to the contrary.

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