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The economy (thelemmy.club)

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.

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[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

Add inflation, and housing costs for a real shocker of a graph.

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