Maybe it's not clear to you because you're one of the wealthy people?
Why should control of 50% wealth equate to 50% of all consumption? Why not 70% of consumption or 40%? What is the reason that the two percentages are expected to be the same?
Readit Newssympil commented on Wealthy Americans fuel half of U.S. economy consumer spending bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/walterbell
sympil commented on Wealthy Americans fuel half of U.S. economy consumer spending bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/walterbell
Yes we could.
Wealthy people eat more expensive food.
Sometimes insanely more expensive.
While the majority of Americans are debating whether or not to buy a dozen eggs this week,
a wealthy man is spending a million dollars a year to feed themselves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyABU75DKjA
I said food consumption not amount spent on food. The two are different. The top 10% don’t consume 50% of the caloric intake of the nation.
sympil commented on Wealthy Americans fuel half of U.S. economy consumer spending bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/walterbell
Yeah, so 10% of Americans own half the wealth, of course they're going to be half the spending.
Why “of course”? It’s not clear to me why that would the case. For instance, we wouldn’t expect the top 10% to account for 50% of all food consumption simply becuase they control 50% of the wealth.
You think Citizen’s United was a good ruling. You think the Voting Rights Act hasn’t been gutted despite thousands of polling stations shutting down. You think there was some bureaucratic state plotting against the executive despite no evidence. Your link is an article about people taking Project 2025 and Trump at their word and trying to plan accordingly. You have no objecticity. Your logic is horribly flawed. You are the problem.
sympil commented on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting bbc.com/news/live/c625ex2... · Posted by u/yakkomajuri
He needs to establish himself as a leader (this behavior doesn't help beyond maybe their base) if he wants to be president after Trump. It's also ingratiating behavior towards Trump which will help ensure he remains on his good side and part of the in-crowd.
I get the sense that Vance and Musk are the ones really in control.
sympil commented on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting bbc.com/news/live/c625ex2... · Posted by u/yakkomajuri
What is most interesting is the presence of Vance and that he started the argument. Yesterday he was with Trump and the British PM and accused the UK of being against free speech. I don’t recall VPs being active in such meetings before now. It says a lot that Vance is taking such a prominent role in areas that VPs traditionally do not publicly venture in.
In such cases, there is usually a “consular report of a birth abroad” that the embassy sends to Washington and the parents get a copy of. Military servicemembers also frequently get this. It’s not required to be done by any means and it is not a birth certificate though it can usually be used in place of one.
But! I think it may be the only document issued about a birth that is proof of US citizenship. And, paradoxically, is not available to people born inside the US.
I got my certificate of citizenship a few days after birth. I believe anyone can get this but almost no one has heard of this.
sympil commented on Elon Musk Is the Richest Man. Why Is He Sleeping on an Office Floor? nytimes.com/2025/02/27/op... · Posted by u/edward
I find it fascinating that he has such a strong desire to have people have a certain perception of him. I'm not sure what that perception is supposed to be,if it's admiration or respect or whatever.
But it does seem to drive him to do odd things. Sleeping on an office floor. There's no reason for him to do that. Pay somebody to follow him around and make a bed for him to sleep in if he doesn't want to go home. Taking photos of himself and then using alt accounts to post wonderful things about himself. It's weird.
He is a deeply lonely person. He has no real friends and appears to be incapable of forming genuine emotional connections. He needs friends but doesn’t have any and the pursuit of adulation from strangers is a poor substitute but it’s the best he can do.
sympil commented on · Posted by u/johnshades
It's time for total control…
You want one person to have total control? Did you applaud his $30 billion crypto bribe?
What more evidence do you need than a WaPo article talking about federal workers that declared they would resist Trump’s policies?
> Your link is an article about people taking Project 2025 and Trump at their word and trying to plan accordingly.
The article is from February 2017. And “trying to plan” what?
> You have no objecticity. Your logic is horribly flawed. You are the problem
Let me ask you a question. You agree that, since Trump won the election, federal employees should work just as hard implementing Project 2025 as they did for Biden, including coming up with creative legal theories like Biden did for student loan forgiveness. Right?
A single article is evidence enough for you. And some people think you are a brilliant lawyer.