If you divided all the stocks issued in the US stock markets by issue number

and put them in a basket, chose one randomly,

there is an 87% chance that that specific stock belongs to someone in the top 10% of wealth in the country.

There’s either millions or billions of stocks in existence, but this is still true.

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    That’s right around the time “Business Administrators” came on the scene. “How can we squeeze even more juice from the lemon” seems to be their only administrating task.

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      Also, it’s when conservative think tanks first came online. This is 80% government policy, 20% corporate fuckery (outside of gov’t fuckery).