I’m pretty confused where you’re coming from. Stimulus checks were a one or two time payment of a couple thousand dollars, but stocks and corporate profits went absolutely parabolic.

The share of wealth owned by the richest people went up far more than the bottom 90 (or even 99) percent. The data absolutely supports this perspective as well: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr...

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dan-robertson 42 minutes ago | parent [-]

The stimulus was not just the checks, it was also pretty generous unemployment, and the discussion was about incomes of workers, not wealth.

	▲	LPisGood 18 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Unemployment almost by definition means they’re not getting as much money as they were before. We can focus strictly on wages, but for higher earners, it doesn’t tell the entire story, especially if we’re focusing on my new detail details like a couple thousand dollars per person.
	▲	reilly3000 34 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Don’t forget about the PPP loans.