Editorial Cartoon Illustrates Wealth Distribution Concepts
This editorial cartoon by David Horsey, originally published in The Seattle Times, uses a pizza metaphor to comment on American economic distribution. The illustration depicts a large pizza being divided into unequal slices, with a character labeled 'Top 1%' holding a pizza cutter and claiming the largest portion. Other characters representing the 'Merely Wealthy,' 'Upper Middle Class,' and 'Lower 50%' are shown with significantly smaller shares of the pizza. The visual serves as a satirical commentary on wealth inequality, framing the economic disparity as a literal division of resources among different socioeconomic groups in the United States.
Broader “social programs” or “human resources” (includes Social Security, Medicare, education, veterans’ benefits, etc.): These can reach 50–67% of federal spending. This is what the AI says , so more than 50% of government spending goes to the lower 50% , while the economic syst
Let's compare the taxes they pay. Let's compare the jobs they provide... And those you don't
You tell us that the top 1% is eating 4 bln tonns of food each year and personaly drink 3.5 bln tonns of water and they buy 90 million cars each year.
economics by retards
You forgot illegals and immigrants.
What makes people think they are fucken special just because they exist? You are going to DIE, You have no other right than anyone else to be alive. If you think you're special why didn't you maximize your chances for success? Why didn't you study harder in secondary skool? Why d
Now do percent of contribution to collected tax revenue vs. percent received from government.
”Riiiight”, said Fred:
Nothing about this is true. What’s it represent? Income? Assets? Net worth? Taxes paid? But you had 200 idiots upvote it and it makes no sense. But thanks Chinese bot.
I first thought it shows how much each contributes i taxes in us, but somehow it would be how much each takes? Takes from what? All these ideological bullshit is so tiring.