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my meme
My meme is a popular one, where Pam from the TV show The Office is presented with two different things, and she states it’s the exact same thing. For my meme, it is two different graphs reflecting the wealth gap between the different groups of wealth classes. The graph on the right is a realistic representation of the wealth gap, with the bottom 50% as the smallest group, and the 50–90%, 90–99%, and 1% all having a somewhat similar amount of wealth holding. On the left photo, it shows the bottom 90%, 90–99%, and the top 1% on the same graph. This is misleading, as it tries to make the wealth gap nonexistent or not bad at all, hoping that people don’t read the actual graph. My meme seeks to point out how severe the gap is and how misleading graphs can be if you don’t pay close attention
