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StephenBuckley  ·  4332 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The poor, poor rich of the Wall Street Journal

I am livid about this. What context was this printed in the WSJ? What the hell is happening here? Of all of the people who should know about monetary dynamics, you'd think these people would have their finger on the pulse. Over 200K is in the top one percent of Americans. Are you shitting me? 650K? Boo fucking hoo. Good god.





dublinben  ·  4332 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think this faux pas gives us an excellent insight into the perspective of the WSJ staff, and their perception of their audience. This graphic is obviously laughable to any of us, but we don't read the Wall Street Journal.

thenewgreen  ·  4332 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, this is pretty weak: I think syncretic tagged this appropriately. It's hard to believe this isn't parody.

syncretic  ·  4332 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, to be fair, I tagged it as #politics, #nottheonion is a community tag. I laughed when I noticed it, though.

b_b  ·  4332 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I tagged it that, but I didn't come up with it. As far as I can tell, thenewgreen did months ago. I've seen posts from time to time with that tag, and I think it fits so perfectly some places.

thenewgreen  ·  4332 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think it's a cliffelam innovation.

b_b  ·  4332 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This is the oldest post I see with the tag. Its not a community tag, so...

thenewgreen  ·  4332 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I see what happened, I was riffing on this post by cliffelam. He started posting anything that was so ridiculous that it seemed like parody under #theonion and I mistakenly started #nottheonion, inspired by his tag.

cliffelam  ·  4332 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Maybe #nottheonion is a more useful tag for political/social stuff given the craziness we enjoy.

-XC