cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/29825277
By popular demand, one last map to examine the absurdity of the American economy.
If you saw my map from yesterday that was up most of the day, please see the corrected version below. I done goofed hard on copying a column of state names. The original post has been corrected, but I will also post my previous two maps on this post for easy comparison.
Edit: the red map, for anyone unaware, is based on current individual state minimum wages and not the current federal minimum wage
At first glance that top map already looked bad, but then I zoomed in on the legend and the cutoff for the white areas is an annual deficit of 60.000 … What a ridiculous scale, that entire map should be blood red.
Any rational perspective on current wealth inequality is naturally shocking
And people avoid shocking things
The only way to get traction is to kind of pretend things are halfway normal
The reasonable, rational people who are absolutely freaked out by the French Revolution levels of wealth inequality are marginalized and sidelined and told they are overreacting
FOR THREE FUCKING DECADES
Fathers with hungry children will be in the streets before the end of summer