• ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It’s definitely getting broader than that, with the way that wealth stratification continues to skyrocket. But I don’t mean “actually rural,” I really do mean “more rural.” A good amount of city real estate prices have priced lower-income folks out of the urban core in many (most?) cities, gentrifying the downtown and resulting in a reversal of 1980s White Flight as the working class move to now-cheaper suburban and rural communities.

    I didn’t mean just farmers or whatever. I just mean people who haven’t got the money to live in the Trader Joe’s district.

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      1 day ago

      People that make enough to “live in the trader Joe’s district” but have to keep working at their job to keep living in their apartment have way more in common with people that make less than them than they do the people that don’t have to work at all.

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        12 hours ago

        We know that, but decades of Republican propaganda has got the small business owners, who get absolutely wrecked by Republican policies, thinking they’re on the side of the rich against the employee class.