▲ 189 ▼ The economy (thelemmy.club) submitted 11 months ago by DancingBear@midwest.social to c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works 26 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.
[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 3 points 11 months ago That certainly raises more questions than answers! permalink fedilink source parent