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America is now the most unequal society in the developed world. Our billionaires are the richest, and our poor people are the poorest of any functioning democracy on Earth (hartmannreport.com)

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[–] asg101@hexbear.net 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

any functioning democracy

Neither functioning, nor a democracy. The usa has ALWAYS been an oligarchy, rule by rich white males is written in the Constitution. But I guess if you realize it's real function is to transfer wealth from the working class to the oligarchs, then yeah, it is functioning as designed.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 months ago

An oligarchy is just democracy for the ruling class