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-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/
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/