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Great insurance coming from where exactly?



> We have great insurance and big piles of savings, there's nothing in common with people who can barely afford their deductible and lose their job for missing too much work.

Bullshit.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/23/business/inflation-cost-o...

https://ssti.org/blog/large-percentage-americans-report-they...

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/18/amid-inflation-more-middle-c...

Between 30 and 70% of Americans can't make ends meet. What used to be called "middle class" is disappearing, making way to only 1%-ers and us, the rest. The fact that I drive a Tesla and some guy drives a Dodge, doesn't mean we are not both stuck in traffic while there is some shcmuck flying on their private jet to reach their yacht.


I think you replied to the wrong person?



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