> Only the top donors matter in donation funding.
Most political donors are $25/month Actblue donations, and it doesn't matter because the campaigns with the most donations regularly lose.
> McDonalds revenues and profits are up despite pricing out a lot of low income people.
They didn't really raise prices, they just put coupons in the app.
> Luxury condos are everywhere.
Houses don't cost more because they have "luxury" features. A nicer countertop doesn't hypnotize people into paying more for a house. Prices are negotiated between buyer and seller and most of the development cost is the land price.
> The poor have less of the nothing they already have.
Wage inequality in the US is lower than it was in 2019. In general income inequality hasn't increased since 2014.