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Makes you wonder whether the calculations serve anyone other than the top 0.1%.

Their portfolios bring up the average for the US because some swinging dicks decided that a (temporarily) decisive strategic advantage in faster calculators makes the graph look “good.”

Meanwhile, people are hungry, getting furloughed, evicted, bombed, arrested, bound, gagged, and shot in America. Democratic institutions, the fundamental raison d’être for the American experiment, are undermined, bulldozed, disregarded, or blown up.

That’s fine, they say. That’s who and what they VOTED for. That’s the mandate, they say.

Horseshit, I say.

Now I’m confused. I thought it was 50% grey. Wikipedia has a lot more middle greys.