By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/10/2026America's affluent top decile - the 10% of richest Americans - do the majority of America's shopping. 1872
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/10/2026This has only been accelerated by America's precipitous slide into oligarchy, which has exhausted the savings *and* the credit-card limits *and* the home equity of the majority of Americans, who increasingly can't afford to buy anything: dreamagainusa.orgdreamagainusa.orgThe Climb: Wealth Inequality in America, to scalePicture U.S. wealth as stacks of $100 bills: the median household’s is about 9 inches tall. The average top-1% household’s is 145 feet, and it keeps getting taller and taller… 312419
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/10/2026If you want to sell things in America, you *must* sell them in the place where the top decile shops, and that's Amazon. 2875
