90 Percent Say There’s Nothing Wrong with Making Lots of Money Most Americans have favorable feelings toward the rich and what it takes to become rich:

9 in 10 Americans say “there is nothing wrong with trying to make as much money as one honestly can.” >62 percent agree that we all benefit when people get rich because they “invest their money in new businesses that create jobs and new technology.” >71 percent “disagree” with the idea that “it’s immoral to allow people to become billionaires.” >54 percent say they feel more admiration than resentment (46 percent) toward the rich.

world is still dogshit

[–] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 34 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Young Americans (40 percent) are also more willing to justify violence against the rich.

Small amount of hope for the future though.

[–] LeninWalksTheEarth@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

bits of hope but still plenty of despair

[–] MohammedTheCommunistPalestinian@hexbear.net 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Junko Enoshima emoji when?

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago

Remember, these positions about billionaires aren't strong. They're something that the ruling class spends hundreds of billions of dollars maintaining. All it takes to flip those opinions is something else happening.

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