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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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[–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

The problem with the sunshine list is that it never changes with inflation. It's basically become a tool for morons to hate on the "overpaid" public sector instead of calling out their own underpaying employers.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Oh, absolutely. I'm just trying to use it as a marker to try to figure out where the goal posts should be for what we are calling "middle class."

    I have a friend who works in central Ontario for a fortune 500 and they take home ~80k/year, and I've considered them and their family middle class for a while, but they also were telling me that they're overextended and struggling to keep up on interest payments...while also being denied a consolidation loan. So maybe they are not really middle class..?

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