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Old 09-21-2019, 04:12 PM   #19149 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Anteater View Post
No, there's a 160-ish million people on some kind of salary or hour wage if the 80 million cited represents around 58% of all salaried workers. Out of those, only 1.8 million (as noted) are at or below the federal minimum wage. That's not a lot compared to the whole working population.
So they're just a minority which means that they don't matter, cool.

What about the 170 million people who fall outside of that working population? Are they also reaping the benefits of capitalism?
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