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I think @AnandWrites is suggesting a better metaphor for understanding the growing economic gap the wealthy are hoarding all the growth.

But I think one question that needs to be asked: how many wealthy individuals could have truly amassed their fortunes legally & ethically.
The chart @alivelshi used to illustrate what essentially is the doubling of wealth in the top 1% vs the loss of wealth in the lower 50% is fairly clear, but what I would have REALLY appreciated is seeing a historical graph of normalized wealth since, say, 1900 or so...
because I have a feeling that there will be sharp inflections around both 1919 (the start of prohibition) and 1987-1989... and as both were followed by big economic crashes, THAT would be very interesting to address.
If so, I think we might have another metaphor for the consolidation of wealth: theft.

And as a previous recipient of a Rosenstiel fellowship, that angers me.
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Just heard Lex Luthor paraphrase Herodotus:

"The bitterest pain among men is to have much knowledge but no power."

Seriously, yo.

Sometimes it seems like y'all want me to go all evil genius, trapping me in a paradoxical existence and shit...

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I am pissed.
I am enraged.

I just watched @ejeancarroll on @thelastword last night, and I am slamming cupboard doors and pouring a stiff drink.

And I'm not furious with @Lawrence.

I'm furious at that bitch that @realDonaldTrump raped.

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random facts girl.
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.... Who records his show in NYC.
Who was 55yo in 2017.
Whose dad fought in the pacific, and lived through the depression
[ erm, like pretty much everyone else who has an ancestor that was alive in the 1930s, which is.... everybody, duh ]
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