William Jennings Bryan, who was a three-time Democratic presidential nominee and served as Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson, said "No man can earn a million dollars honestly". He campaigned under the idea that all of the wealthy are corrupt, and the United States needed reform. It's a sad state of affairs that the majority of our citizens won't vote for politicians that represent the interests of the working class. Almost all of our politicians support and assist the wealthy, and refuse to acknowledge the issues facing the working class, yet people keep putting them in office.

[–] cornshark@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Historical note: $1million in his time is $36.5m today

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Wow, that really put it in perspective. How far we have let greed get the better of ourselves. Where are the guardrails to prevent this?

[–] msage@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

Inflationary currency needs and expects this. Just how it works.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 16 points 9 months ago

lol nowadays a million dollars is like, the bare minimum you need for a comfortable retirement that doesn’t include “dying before 70” as part of the plan.

Inflations a son of a bitch.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Part of it is that people have been sold on the idea that they could be rich one day too.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 17 points 9 months ago