return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agoA staggering 80% of American households are financially worse off than they were before COVID-19finance.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square192fedilinkarrow-up11.02Karrow-down113
arrow-up11Karrow-down1external-linkA staggering 80% of American households are financially worse off than they were before COVID-19finance.yahoo.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square192fedilink
minus-squarehperrin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down1·1 year agoNow ask the CEOs how they’re doing.
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down2·1 year agoMan, some of them have had to delay that second private jet purchase until next year.
minus-squarePatches@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-21 year agoMost of them got richer. So no they did not put off anything. About $42 trillion in new wealth was created in the first two years of the pandemic. Two-thirds of that has gone to the richest 1% of the world’s people https://www.marketplace.org/2023/01/16/how-the-worlds-richest-people-became-much-richer-during-the-pandemic/
Now ask the CEOs how they’re doing.
Man, some of them have had to delay that second private jet purchase until next year.
Most of them got richer. So no they did not put off anything.
https://www.marketplace.org/2023/01/16/how-the-worlds-richest-people-became-much-richer-during-the-pandemic/