Sorry brothers

China's standard has living has increased exponentially in the last few decades where it's dropping in America. People tout this "capitalism has lifted more out of poverty" line over and over, and ignoring the logical inconsistency (that something can eradicate the very product of its nature), ignoring the fact that they literally just artificially lower what is supposedly considered "impoverished" to make the system look better, if you removed China as a factor, people are poorer globally now than they were in 1980.

The only people getting richer are the rich. Literally 99% of all newly created wealth goes to the top 1 tenth of 1% and people really believe this stupid shit.

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