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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Banksy ✸✺🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Gulf Of America?
Date: 02/12/25 10:16 AM
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The real Gulf of America is wealth inequality,
Which Trump and his billionaire pals will be widening with more tax cuts for the wealthy. But don't look behind the curtain, keep focused on that "gulf of america" or that huge water spigot Trump opened,
or those freed Jan 6th heroes!...

As of Q4 2021, the top 1% of households held 31% of the nation's wealth, while the bottom 50% held only 2.6%

Working class Americans have a significantly shorter lifespan than people who are wealthy.

While 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg, combined, own more wealth than the bottom half of America.

The collective net worth of America's top 12 billionaires exceeds $2 trillion, a 193% increase since 2020.

The top 1% earn on average 132 times more than the bottom 99%, with an average annual income of $16.16 million.

en.wikipedia.org - Wealth inequality in the United States

inequality.org - Wealth inequality
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