Aram Zucker-Scharff

Economic recovery! Housing recovery! Everyone is doing just awesome, that’s why people are doing this sweet tiny house innovation, because living in a shipping container apartment or using rainwater to wash yourself is oh so fun! Excelsior!

“”Boomers refuse to go away.””

– American workers are older than ever.

The Family Dollar deal embodies everything wrong with American capitalism:

The French economist Thomas Piketty could not have dreamed up a better illustration of the problematic and growing income inequality in the US than the Family Dollar-Dollar Tree combination. Let’s start with the backdrop: Essentially, the lower-income Americans that are the target customers of dollar stores have gotten too poor to buy anything other than food 

The Family Dollar/Dollar Tree merger is occurring because the average American is TOO POOR FOR THE DOLLAR STORE and as a result these two companies can no longer stand alone.

But hey the deal will likely earn Family Dollar’s CEO $180 million. I’m sure that’ll trickle down somehow. Right?

“Surprisingly, women who engaged in less sexual activity were more likely to be publicly labelled a slut than women who engaged in more sexual activity. This finding made little sense until we realized that college women also used the term as a way to police class boundaries.”

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