We did?! Where?

  • mommykink@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    In other words: During the pandemic, those under 40, many flush with stimulus checks, took to the stock market and saw big gains.

    Who the fuck wrote this? “Flush with stimulus checks”?? You mean those one-time payouts that didn’t even cover a month’s rent while half of us were out of work?

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      9 months ago

      The much more obvious interpretation is that a lot of them inherited cash from the untimely deaths of their parents.