The Wall Street Journal outlines the plight of common folk

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  1. malphigian Oh, Come On

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  2. Shake Keeper of the Elemental Materials

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    This has been posted here, in this very subforum, and in the stupid shit people post thread (I think). I still enjoy getting mad at it though. I can't decide if the single person or the family piss me off the most. I think maybe I could go Funny Games on that family.
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  3. jeffd Armchair Designer

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    The married couple is hilarious. How the fuck much do you need to have invested to generate nearly 200k in income annually? I assume they're not liquidating their 401k... They've gotta be worth at least 20mn to passively generate that income!
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  4. jeffd Armchair Designer

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    The married couple is hilarious. How the fuck much do you need to have invested to generate nearly 200k in income annually? I assume they're not liquidating their 401k... They've gotta be worth at least 20mn to passively generate that income!
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  5. malphigian Oh, Come On

    I did try to search, but failed to turn anything up, ah well.
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  6. Dean Despondent Fancybear

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    Y'know, at first I thought the old couple was sad, but now they look kinda smug to me. As in, "We got ours, motherfuckers, now you all got to pay!"

    See, because they're the black ones, so Obama.
  7. Hanacker Armchair Designer

    Hmm, and the single person does look like she's angrily judging the married couple for having too many children.
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  8. Drastic Beardy Magnificence

    There are many good parts to it, but I like how the toddler in arms is glaring at the single woman. I think the tot's angrily judging her for not being their nanny.

    Also, it's a real shame that the artist didn't base at least one of the sad children on this:
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  9. Murgatroyd Armchair Designer

    Now that you mention it, the older man does look very confrontational, and his wife seems to be holding him back from assualting and robbing me!

    He's probably angry about having to wear pants fashioned from palm leaves.
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  10. Grenadier 7 Beer

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    Cleveland
    That poor single mom, scraping by on 260k a year.

    According to this thing I should be living in a cardboard box.
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  11. Shake Keeper of the Elemental Materials

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    Portland
    Wanna go halfzies on an upscale cardboard box in the part of town where the hobos aren't beaten by cops?
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  12. Grenadier 7 Beer

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    Cleveland
    I dunno. I have a pretty good steam grate where I am.
  13. drew Level 90 Paladin

    After watching the Golden Globes : clockwise, that's Jodie Foster, Apollo Creed, Woody Allen and Lucy Lu
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  14. Waltzer Hivemind Coordinator

    I read the comments on the article. Why did I do that?
  15. AlanT I Pretty Much Live Here

    I love that photo.

    Waltzer, you should know better than to read the comments!
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  16. Jason Pace Keeper of the Elemental Materials

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    Atlanta, GA
    Less to do with being black, and more to do with them having a raw income of $103k a year which means they are retired on the kind of pension plan that is only seen in the wildest dreams of the vast majority of people trying to currently plan their retirement.
  17. MatthewF Elitist Negative Nancy

    I do not see why the two can't be mutually exclusive. "Look at the rich black folk! They don't work, and don't even have a tax increase!" It's bizarre that they would even include that.
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  18. Jason McCullough Keeper of the Elemental Materials

    The median Manhattan household income is only 67k, which makes that article even funnier.
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