The tide has turned – evidence shows ordinary citizens in the Western world are now richer and more equal than ever before

I don't know how this shit landed in aeon (who are like navel-gazy libsocs), but if you want to read some number twisting (shenanigans include: taking means instead of medians, using home value as objective factor of being rich, mysterious absence of global south), have "fun"

  • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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    2 months ago

    lol just based on the title I assumed it’s either surprising bc it’s self evident and some lib got paid to write a diatribe about something obvious like they discovered new info or it’s surprising in that it’s a completely fabricated take to obscure the aforementioned self evident reality of the situation

    • plinky [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      i was hoping to get some meow-floppy really makes you think shit, and instead got unattenuated pinker ideology. Somewhat useful for seeing how stats as obfuscation can be deployed though