There are people serving life sentences for things that they did as children. Who have spent decades trying to get someone to give them another chance. Now they watch as pardons are simply handed to people with wealth, with social and political proximity to power. It's appalling.
Wealth of Jeff Bezos in 2009: $6.8 billion
Wealth of Jeff Bezos in 2020: $184 billion
Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg in 2009: $2 billion
Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg in 2020: $103 billion
U.S. Minimum Wage from 2009-2020: $7.25
We need an economy that works for all of us, not the 1%.
@jetinthehood@svensundgaard I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. We live among people who quite simply aren’t capable of sustained effort for the greater good. It’s so depressing.