Worse, it's the Temporarily embarrassed billionaire -Most Americans think they are or will one day be apart of the top 10% of the top 1%. They don't get that upward socioeconomic mobility has stalled out in the past twenty years.
the crazy thing about this story (aside from the slavery) is that the voters of Alabama voted to outlaw that exception at the state level but ever since then, their governor has overidden that effort.
when i was in my early 20's i had a friend who was on house-arrest. She unknowingly convinced me that if i ever found myself in her situation just to do the time instead of aiming for a house arrest plea-deal for similar reasons.
planting trees today hoping nobody cuts them down tomorrow
tangentially speaking only 00.008% of my state is still 'Old Growth Forest' which is defined as being at least 150 years old. If we define the length of a generation as 25 years then it's only 6 generations before your tree is %0.01 likely to be still around
a busty bust