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The economy (infosec.pub)
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If you divided all the stocks issued in the US stock markets by issue number

and put them in a basket, chose one randomly,

there is an 87% chance that that specific stock belongs to someone in the top 10% of wealth in the country.

There’s either millions or billions of stocks in existence, but this is still true.

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[–] memfree@piefed.social 31 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Reminds me of this site (which offers no answers):

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

[–] Lojcs@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

that took a turn:

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