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26 Financial Inequalities That’d Make That ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ Guy Scurry Back Out of That Forest

October 01, 2023

Well, it looks like we have our marching orders! That red-bearded enigma is going to whip up another working-class anthem, then half of us sit cross-legged on Wall Street, and the other half will grab some forks and some Grey Poupon, since — as all those 1990s commercials taught us — it pairs so well with the rich. Here are a few tasty reasons why…

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OF AMERICA OF AMERICA UKITED STATES $1 DKITED $1 More than 2 million Americans live on less than $2 a day. CRACKED.COM — Source

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MICROSOFT SURE KNOWS HOW TO PARTY (BUT NOT HOW TO MANAGE). Microsoft held a fancy event in Switzerland with Sting, attended by execs. The next day, they said they'd cut 10,000 jobs. CRACKED — Source

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THE GOP SAYS THE POOR SHOULD ONLY EAT CANNED FISH. Republican lawmakers in lowa want to limit what SNAP recipients can buy, like cheese, white bread, rice, beans, and poultry, and only let them get canned tuna and salmon for meat. Of course, SNAP households usually spend a lot on meat and poultry. CRACKED — Source

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In order to spend his current net worth by the time he That's enough to turns 80, Bill Gates would buy the average have to spend more than American home $9.7 million every day. 35 times CRACKED.COM — Source

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When the ABA folded in 1976, the top four teams joined the NBA. The owners of the two remaining clubs were bought out. Spirits SiPouis The owner of the Kentucky Colonels Colonels 24 accepted $3 million. 25 The owners of the Spirits of St. Louis took less money up front, but also negotiated a share of NBA television revenue in perpetuity. As of 2011, that deal had earned them $237 million. Finally, the NBA agreed to pay them half a billion dollars to get out of the contract. (But if you think the owner of the Colonels felt bad, the — Source

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Wal-Mart's revenues were $469 billion in FY 2012. If this a country, 28th would make it the ЗАПОНАСТОВ - largest economy in the world, ranking between Taiwan and Austria. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Harvard's endowment is currently 32.7 billion dollars. If Harvard used part of that endowment to pay full tuition, room, and board for all 6,700 undergrads, its endowment would be left with a mere... HAVAH 32.3 billion dollars. CRACKED.COM — Source

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As of May, 2013 Bill Gates has donated an estimated $28 BILLION to charity in his lifetime. If you were earning the median wage in the US in 2011, do you know how long that would take you to earn, much less give away? 560,000 YEARS CRACKED.COM — Source

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GRACKED.COM The markup on frozen drinks is 980%. That means that a $2 drink actually costs the retailer about 19cents. — Source

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IF CHURCHES PAID TAXES.... UNITED STATES IRS OF AMERICA 2013 TAX BILL s $ $ $83.5 BILLION -TAX EXEMPTIONS $$$ -SUBSIDIES paid =$0.00 IT WOULD PAY FOR ALL THE FOOD STAMPS FOR EVERY PERSON ON WELFARE FOOD D $TAMP STAMP STAMP $76 BILLION STAMP WITH ENOUGH LEFT OVER TO HOUSE THE ENTIRE HOMELESS POPULATION GRAGKED CON — Source

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CRACKED.COM These twenty people have more money than + Switzerland or Saudi Arabia also, these countries — Source

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Mark Zuckerberg earns the average person's annual salary in his bathroom break. The average full-time U.S. worker makes $46,800 a year. Zuckerberg makes that much in less than two minutes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Elon Musk could buy each of his 45,000 Tesla employees 11.9 Model 3 cars with his net worth. — Source

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08F0 Jeff Bezos' F net worth 89 F078 6 is about IBL $110 billion. A D a CD4CD 890 1878F 4 78 EO PC 67 3 8F08 5C BC4BC345 3 A person making $7.25 an hour would have to work about 1.73 million years to earn the same amount. CRACKED.COM 67F6 — Source

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The Waltons, the family behind Walmart, make $4 million per hour. Walmart Save money. Live better. The average new Walmart associate, for comparison, earns around $11 in that timeframe. CRACKED.COM — Source

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It would cost you $2,350 to renounce your U.S. citizenship PASSPORT PASSPORT d States The U.S. has the highest fee in the world. It hiked the fee from $450 in 2014. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM The richest 1% of the world earned 82% of all the money generated in 2017. — Source

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CRACKED.COM The cost to end world hunger is $30 billion per year -the same amount as drunk Americans spend online annually — Source

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No state's minimum wage is high enough to live alone. The National Low Income Housing Coalition found that in order to make average rent on a one bedroom apartment in the United States you need to make $17.90 an hour at a full- time job (40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year). That's $6.40 more than the highest state minimum wage, and two and a half times federal minimum wage. S CRACKED.COM — Source

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According to a survey, 78% of full-time workers in the US live paycheck to paycheck. THE . UNITED STATES OPAN - to В COTENZER в VE 13. 1953 ... 2 2 In fact, 25% of those workers can't even make ends meet with their paychecks. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The number of old student loan owners is greater than ever before. The number of people with student loans who are 60 years old or more went from 700,000 to 2.8 million in just a decade, from 2005 to 2015. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GRACKED.COM SEITE TEAM UNITED NOVESSAR OF AMERICA DD160755588 Kids earn an average of $4.13 per lost tooth in the US. That's four times the minimum wage per hour in Mexico. — Source

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As of 2017, about 192 million people CRACKED.COM were unemployed worldwide. WORKSOURCE OREGON Job Fair Today A country that size would be the world's 7th biggest. — Source

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In 43 states, jails and prisons can bill inmates for their stay. The fees can be tens of thousands of dollars, are imposed at the sole discretion of a judge, and are often aggressively collected regardless of ability to pay. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In 2014, the average US worker generated value in the amount of $106.00/hour. For their labor, they were paid an average wage of $24.57/hour. GRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM The average CEO has made more money by lunchtime on January 2 than the average worker will make all year. — Source

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