They just have not considered the massive shareholder value being captured, which under capitalism is certainly guaranteed to trickle down, as it had been historically proven time after time.

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internet_points 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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	▲	spacechild1 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The parent comment was so sarcastic, it actually defeats Poe's law.

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overrun11 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Most Americans directly own stocks and a college graduate is even more likely to. This isn't the 1860's so a lot of these critiques of capitalism are anachronistic. The reality is "shareholders" are fairly ordinary people and not a tiny and mysterious group of elites.

	▲	spacechild1 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		First, trickle-down economics is a modern neo-liberal concept. Second, most people just do not earn enough to invest a significant amount of money in stocks. It's a system that largely benefits the rich. The more money you already have, the more you can invest.