10 Richest Americans Have Gained $700 Billion in Wealth Since Trump Reelection

Blue shell the rich.

The collapse is inevitable.

The Vanderbilts and Rockerfellers and JP Morgans weren't the ones bankrupted by the Great Depression. Elon Musk will not be the protagonist of the next Steinbeck novel. The "collapse" will just be further economic consolidation, until the people being squeezed are willing to resist their own exploitation as a collective unit.

If the stock market loses 90% of its value tomorrow, all that changes is valuation. The physical capital remains in the hands of the plutocrats as does the command over the bulk of human labor. And the pain we feel will be the consequence of policies they impose, not any real shortfall of goods or dearth of professional services.

Not scared enough.

Texas Can’t Keep Up with Surge in Workers’ Wage Theft Complaints

Research by Round and her colleagues found that TWC ordered $99 million in wages ordered due across over 57,000 cases between 2010 and 2020, but 80 percent of those wages had yet to be recovered as of 2024. The TWC told the Dallas Morning News in 2023 that it could not verify Rutgers’ findings since it lacked access to the methodology.

“Collections is a difficult problem. It’s like collecting against any debt. If the money’s not there, the money’s not there,” Round said. TWC’s current enforcement and deterrent tools vary. Penalties of up to $1,000 can be imposed on bad-faith employers, the agency can order the employer’s bank to freeze funds and turn them over, or it can file a lawsuit against the employer. A lien is also attached to an employer’s property after a final determination of owed wages, which could force employers to pay back owed wages if they try to sell the property. There are currently more than 11,000 active liens totaling over $127 million, according to state data.

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The number of investigators, however, is dwindling. As of earlier this year, there were just 611, the lowest point in decades nationwide, according to Rutgers University researchers. As of May 2025, there were only 68 federal investigators assigned in Texas—one for every 232,000 workers. A review of federal data shows that the total wages federal investigators ordered to be paid back in Texas is the lowest it’s been in 21 years at $7.5 million in the 2025 fiscal year, compared to tens of millions in prior years.

thats why POCs conservative thirst over rich old white people. they see being white and or rich as the epitome of success.

I'm hungry for some baguettes and French onion soup

You go far enough left and you eventually get your guns back

Which ones, I'm genuinely asking

I'd rather just use them as fertiliser.

\70. The figures I have heard on NPR say that SNAP costs 100 million per year

job creating in south east asia, india, and south america, eastern europe. where the salary is lower.

So glad I went to college and grad school to get a job at a biotech, helping produce life saving drugs, just to barely live paycheck to paycheck with 5 digit credit card debt.

The amount of times I think about suicide is too high for my liking. Honestly why do people even have kids anymore. Fuck this place.

It is The most evil society ever build

there are some pretty tight competitors for that spot if we try not to have a recency bias

It doesn't address the issue of billionaires.

Trump playing with tarrifs while him and all his buddies participate in insider trading has been the biggest, most blatant wealth steal in recent history that I am aware of. I tried playing the game with them and made a couple bucks, but I am not even playing with pennies compared to these assholes. They wrote the rules to make themselves win, and we will always be the losers.