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Canada’s Richest 1% Nearly As Wealthy As Poorest 80% (www.readthemaple.com)
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19% would be the complacent middle class 🤮

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[–] 3 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Its definition is literally a reference to "incentivize," so all that proves is that language has rotted slightly

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Back in the 1840s apparently.

    https://www.oed.com/dictionary/incent_v?tl=true

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (4 children)

    Not if you actually read the chart

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    "The earliest known use of the verb incent is in the 1840s."

    ???

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    If you read the chart, rather than just the AI summary, you'd see that usage was quite low until a slow rise in the mid-20th century.

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