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Low-wage workers faced worsening affordability in 2025 as wage growth stalled (www.epi.org)
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[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

If you divided all the stocks issued in the US stock markets by issue number

and put them in a basket, chose one randomly,

there is an 87% chance that that specific stock belongs to someone in the top 10% of wealth in the country.

There's either millions or billions of stocks in existence, but this is still true.