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[El Jeff @iJeffferson]

To be alone is a veritable elixir that drives an illness completely to the surface. First it has to get bad, worse, the very worst–there is no going further in any language–but then all gets well.
— Rainer Maria Rilke

[B/R Football @brfootball]

He heard you 🗣️

[lynk @lynk0x]

"Why can't you sleep?"

Me, every night:

[The Global Watch Club @GlobalWatchClub]

Omega 'Dark side of the moon' Speedmaster

I really like that moon dial

[le.hl @0xleegenz]

Walking alone through a foreign city at night and realizing how far you’ve come has to be a top 3 peak moment of all time

[ᴏʜᴇɴᴇ ᴘᴀʀᴋᴇʀ @ohene_Parker]

City of Accra ft Freddie Gambini & K.C
Official Visualizer out on YouTube🚨

https://t.co/bQiTXuAaPD

[Laurel Ayee @Laurel_Ayee]

Plantain just makes everything better
Plantain + waakye
Plantain + rice with stew/ shito
Plantain + jollof rice
Plantain + fried rice
Plantain + spaghetti
Plantain + indomie
Plantain + beans
Plantain + chichinga
PLANTAIN PLANTAIN PLANTAIN🥹❤️

[Aviator @MrUnloved1s]

This was funny!

snkrlove23 is a fool 🤣🤣

[Up Next @upnextdesigner]

Dakar Fashion Week took place on the Atlantic Ocean ❤️🌊

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Here is what this really means.

It is not “everyone is getting richer.”

It is “the ladder is being ripped out while the floor caves in.”

1. The stat is structurally rigged

“High income” is defined as >150k per household.

That number used to be clearly upper class.

Now:
•Two professionals in a big city can hit 150k and still feel broke
•Childcare, housing, healthcare, and education have grown far faster than median wages
•Asset prices have detached from wage growth

So the category “high income” has quietly expanded in nominal terms while real purchasing power has been hollowed out.

You get more people “above 150k” on paper, while:
•Home ownership is harder
•Families delay kids
•Household savings remain thin
•Student debt and other leverage fill the gap

The distribution looks richer on a chart while lived reality feels poorer.

That is not prosperity. That is inflation plus leverage wearing a tuxedo.

2. The middle class is not shrinking by accident

A shrinking middle class with a swelling “high income” tier is what you get when:
•Capital returns compound faster than wage growth
•Policy, zoning, and regulation defend asset holders over new entrants
•Education becomes a toll road instead of a ladder
•Healthcare acts like a tax on life

The result:
•You get a larger group of “high earners” who still live month to month
•You get a middle class that cannot accumulate assets
•You get a lower class that is functionally excluded from mobility

In other words:

Society is re-sorting around asset ownership instead of income level.

3. The real class map

If you strip away the old labels, the emerging structure looks more like this:

1. Asset sovereigns

Own equity, land, productive businesses, or large positions in scale assets like BTC. Their income is downstream of their balance sheet.

2. High income dependents

Earn good money. Often highly educated. Live in expensive metros. Have little time, thin savings, and a lot of path dependence. They run hard to stay in place.

3. Trapped middle

Work in legacy roles. See costs outrun wages. Own either no assets or a single overlevered home. Vulnerable to any shock.

4. System outsiders

Gig workers, marginal labor, structurally excluded. Entirely price takers. No leverage except political instability.

This stat is telling you that group 2 is growing while group 3 shrinks.

That looks like progress if you squint.

In reality it means the system is becoming more “two story”:
•Upstairs: asset backed, volatility buffered
•Downstairs: income backed, volatility exposed

4. Macro consequence

A society where:
•One third are high income
•Under half are middle class
•The rest are structurally locked out

will exhibit:
•Rising political volatility
•Oscillation between “tax the rich” and “save my portfolio”
•Surges of populism tied to asset cycles
•Pressure toward financial repression and stealth inflation

Because the only politically tolerable way to paper over this is:
•Inflate away real debt burdens
•Keep asset prices elevated
•Subsidize just enough to prevent open revolt

Which is exactly the environment that strengthens scarce, non state assets.

5. What this really means

The real split is not:
•High income versus middle income

It is:
•People who translate their income into durable claim on future cash flows
•People who let the system recycle their income back into rent, interest, and fees

This entire project has been about crossing that line and then helping others read the map.

So the honest answer:

This stat is a quiet confirmation that the old “middle class dream” is being replaced with a new architecture:
•Work is volatile
•Assets are political
•Scarcity is narrative plus code

In that architecture, being early, lucid, and correctly positioned is not a flex.

It is survival.

[Zotto @zottogodd]

Still on TARGET w @iquesto 🎯

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[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

Let’s bring the energy. ⚡️

#UCL

[Young Thug ひ @youngthug]

Man I Miss My Dogs

[Football Talent Scout - Jacek Kulig @FTalentScout]

Moisés Caicedo vs Fulham:

🛡️ 4 tackles
🥷 5 interceptions
⛔️ 1 blocked shot
🧹 2 clearances
⚔️ 6/8 ground duels won

23 years of age. Machine Man. 🔵🇪🇨

[Amplify Ghana @Amplifygh]

🇬🇭🚨🎶 Ghanaian artiste Ohene Parker (@ohene_Parker) has unveiled a visualizer for his latest single “Dash Card.”

🔗 — https://t.co/kATZ5CcQx4🧡

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

It's that time again... 🤩

[𐕣🧛🏾 @doyenmxn]

I can’t believe that not even a single ancestor of mine had the ambition to get rich as hell.

[Illusions and Glow ✨ @miss__hooper]

I wish this happened to me

Ɛtɔ, kelewele, Fried plantain with every meal, kɔkɔɔ and beans stew and finally, when all is said and done, almighty tatale🙂‍↕️

[ᴏʜᴇɴᴇ ᴘᴀʀᴋᴇʀ @ohene_Parker]

Pull the Dash Card and witness Everlasting Motion🅰️💯

Official Lyric video is out now on @YouTube

https://t.co/8Z4yGBat9D

[ᴏʜᴇɴᴇ ᴘᴀʀᴋᴇʀ @ohene_Parker]

Tell a good friend OHENE PARKER is about serving something fresh🫡😁
7th AUG.

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