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Americans aren't spending like they used to, and it's forcing a reckoning for companies from Starbucks to Whirlpool (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

WTF were they expecting to happen?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

The wealthy lost track of exactly how poor they were making the rest of us. The plan was just to keep milking the proles for more, while giving them less, for ever. It was not a smart plan.

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