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Typical sanewashing of the complete collapse of the American middle class
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2025
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What's wild is I used to work local television news production. I saw how little the reporters and anchors got paid. It's not like they are a completely out of touch class, almost all of them are facing the same kind of problems. That was nearly 20 years ago now, too. Things ain't magically got better for a dead industry that keeps consolidating.
Did the story list every single American city, or was it a complete obfuscation of the facts on the ground?
Uh, it slipped away like 25 years ago. Keep up, KTLA.
The KTLA news is more like a paid ad these days.
Its been gone since the 80s if not before
If you track the average wealth of Americans it peaked around 1976 and went downhill from there
I think you might mean modal instead of median/average. The average keeps going up but it is skewed by the wealth at the top while the mode keeps dropping.
60% can’t afford basic standard of living let alone home ownership