1. El legado de Biden: ¿Reducción real o percepción de fracaso?
Existe una contradicción profunda entre los indicadores que muestran una reducción histórica de la desigualdad de ingresos y la percepción ciudadana de una brecha de riqueza cada vez más inalcanzable.
- Biden was the first president in decades to see income inequality decrease! you are literally describing the opposite of reality.
- Inequality grew during the biden admin, the wealth gap also grew. Youre just saying it didnt.
- Biden oversaw the first reduction in income inequality in decades. Wage growth was strongest at the bottom two quintiles. He was a fierce supporter of unions and labor rights.
2. La economía en forma de K y el impacto de la inflación.
El fenómeno de la "economía en forma de K" describe una realidad donde los activos de los más ricos crecieron exponencialmente mientras las clases bajas luchaban contra el costo de vida y la vivienda.
- We are a k economy where the wealthy get wealthier and the poor get poorer. Income inequality was decreasing under biden!
- The biden administration saw 40 of the increasd in income inequality that happened since 1980 reverse due to disproportionately high wage growth for lower decile workers.
- The biden inflation spike was objectively way less nasty than the great recession. Real wages going up, inequality down. So yeah voters do irrationally overreact to inflation.
3. Consecuencias políticas y la derrota electoral de 2024.
Muchos analistas sugieren que la campaña de Harris fracasó al no conectar con la realidad de precariedad que sentían los votantes, a pesar de las métricas macroeconómicas positivas.
- Harris lost because she said the economy is good. Everyone is struggling and dems want to tinker around the edges of a system that is failing most of us.
- The biden-era decrease in wealth inequality was a huge policy victory that never got enough attention. But also, it was a brief reversal of long term trends.
- The biden administration was the first time in fifty five years in the united states that income inequality decreased. Now my friend, did voters reward the biden administration for that? yes or no?
4. Críticas al sistema estructural y al poder corporativo.
Se critica a ambos partidos por mantener un sistema neoliberal que favorece a las corporaciones y permite que la desigualdad persista como un problema sistémico desde hace décadas.
- All of the u.s. Presidents since 1990 have failed at addressing economic inequality. Instead, their actions have often maintained or even exacerbated existing disparities.
- Joe biden told rich donors to their faces that they had so much money that nothing would fundamentally change about their lifestyles if they paid their fair share, that he didnt want to demonize them, but this level of inequality was dangerous.
- The us has horrendous inequality, but likes of biden do little to change that. The problem to a large degree is with the voting system that supports the 2 party status quo.
5. El impacto en la vivienda y el costo de vida.
A pesar del crecimiento de los salarios reales, el aumento descontrolado en los precios de la vivienda y los alimentos anuló cualquier sensación de progreso para el ciudadano promedio.
- So wealth inequality didnt reach record highs under biden? housing didnt become totally unattainable? job security didnt deteriorate?
- Under biden we set a new record high for homelessness, student debt, and wealth inequality. Gaslighting people with easily disproved false claims of the best economy ever is a big part of why democrats got their asses kicked.
- The housing crisis got worse, and wealth inequality rocketed to new heights. Then we had biden, who did fuck-all to actually undo the things trump did.