• bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    Is pretty meaningless to look at top earners.

    Some specialist doctors are making a million dollars a year, but the average is closer to $375,000.

    Much like musicians, there are huge numbers of “professional” athletes that are not making a living wage. The low end for medical doctors is plenty to survive.

    I think it’s distasteful when people complain about people earning six figures not getting as much as others, while we have people dying in the streets from capitalistic poverty.

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      2 days ago

      People die in the streets under socialism and communism as well. You understand this, right?

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        2 days ago

        To poverty at the same or similar rates with little if anything being done to combat it?