35 Of The Most Accurate Capitalism Memes And Jokes That Prove We Already Live In A Dystopia
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One of the issues that ties a lot of these pictures is income inequality, which has been rising in the United States for decades. In fact, income gains have been heavily skewed toward the top even among high earners,
The growth of CEO pay illustrates this trend very well. In 1965, a typical corporate CEO earned about twenty times that of a typical worker; by 2018, the ratio was 278:1, according to a progressive think thank the Economic Policy Institute.
Between 1978 and 2018, CEO compensation increased by more than 900 percent while worker compensation increased by just 11.9 percent.
Ohhhh, do not get me started. I’ve worked from home for years and still overworked so much that I got sick. The PJs didn’t change the fact that I was up at 4am.
We all know America is not a democracy, however, it isn't a capitalist nation either (because in a capitalist nation the the motor and financial companies would have gone under), it is a corporatocracy.
But the picture is very much the same if we lookat wealth—that is, total net worth rather than yearly income.
In 2021, the top 10 percent of Americans held nearly 70 percent of U.S. wealth (up from about 61 percent at the end of 1989).
The share held by the next 40 percent fell correspondingly over that period. The bottom 50 percent (roughly 63 million families) had about 2.5 percent of wealth in 2021.
And if you die, there is no minimum to cover your funeral expenses.
Inequality in the United States also outpaces that of other rich nations. This is captured by the steady rise in the U.S. Gini coefficient, a measure which shows a country's economic inequality and ranges from zero (completely equal) to one hundred (completely unequal).
The US had Gini coefficient of 40 in 2019—the same as Bulgaria’s and Turkey’s, and significantly higher than that of Canada, France, and Germany—according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Like everything else that needs to get addressed, they drag their feet in hopes of us giving up fighting for it
65 % of all US personal bankruptcies have a large medical expense component. The only country in the G8 with out universal health care. Not the greatest country in the world.
Recent economic shocks only deepened these trends. The so-called Great Recession from 2007 to 2009 caused incomes to fall, and even when they recovered to pre-recession levels in 2015, the median income was the same as it was in 2000: $70,200.
However, the recovery was unequal: by 2016, the top 10 percent had more wealth than they did in 2007 while the bottom 90 percent had less.
And we've strangled your generation with our national debt because we believe in raising deficits but not our taxes..... we are such good parents....
Hard work gets punished with more, and the working class is more like the "starving" class
When people say "capitalism has raised people out of poverty" they tend to mean "capitalism has outsourced our poverty to other countries".
Experts believe the economic turmoil caused by the pandemic, including the largest spike in unemployment in modern history, will exacerbate inequality in the same way.
Low-wage workers were far more likely to be laid off and less likely to be rehired, though massive government stimulus helped blunt the impact. Meanwhile, a boom in stock and home prices primarily benefited wealthy Americans, who own more of these assets. Though wages rose at the fastest pace in decades, so did prices, and this inflation effectively canceled out wage gains.
Because capitalism is indifferent towards essential values, but it has a soft spot for unscrupulous, heartless opportunists who, for the sake of material wealth, are willing to go over the dead bodies of those whom the essential workers are trying to save.
HOWEVER, doctors who vote right wing ARE partially responsible for the gouging of patients. https://twitter.com/_eric_reinhart/status/1581290947442540544?s=46&t=8CD0cMlC2GckCDuTuwyQ-Q
I started my job about a year and a half ago after leaving another one after being there for 15 years, I almost fell off my chair when the interviewer said their raises are based on work ethic, not“across the board”, wish me luck on my first review on new job
My gf is lucky... she lives in the same apartment in the last 15 years and had nice landlords (no joke, they were nice) who never raised the rent above inflation (even froze it 2 years during the pandemic even though it was not necessary in our case). Following the inflation, it should be about 1035$/month and we are paying 960$ for it. BUT, with what's happening in the last years, the average in my hometown for the same apartment is at a staggering 2500$/month (more than twice what it should be)! An incredibly small one-bedroom in a bad part of town (no transportation and far from everything) goes for 1275$/month. It's completely out of control.
Inequality is a drag on economic growth and fosters political dysfunction. It's a breeding ground for all sorts of problems. And while talks alone won't help eradicate it, it's the first step we have to take if we want a better future. In this regard, More Perfect Union is the place to start.
I'm not quite sure how I feel about this, I have a colleague who lives 5-minute walk from the office, I live about 1 hour away, in the evening time it can take up to 20 minutes longer. Why should my colleague get less pay or work longer hours than me, just because I decided to buy a house in the countryside? (it's not so much of an issue for me or my colleagues since the pandemic, because most of us work from home, but the theory still applies)
The billionaires would kill a continent for a few precious pennies rather than give workers a single thing. Look at Nestle!
Teachers shouldn't complain . There are not a lot of work sites that now allow you to carry guns. (Yes I'm being satirical)
15 years of loyalty, 800 hours of sick time accrued, I’m that last looking clown, with out the smile
Self-care was meant to be about saying “no, f**k you, I am not going to be productive right now”. It’s no surprise that the ruling class sabotaged it, but I remain disappointed in how many regular people fell for it. Then again, with how many people won’t even wear a mask because the ruling class said “THE PANDEMIC IS OVER GO BACK TO MAKING US RICHER”, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
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What gets me is the tiny house movement, or vanlife, and minimalism. Seems as if having almost nothing is being normalized yet the 1% have houses so big you need a golf cart to get from one end to the other.
What gets me is the tiny house movement, or vanlife, and minimalism. Seems as if having almost nothing is being normalized yet the 1% have houses so big you need a golf cart to get from one end to the other.
