Economists Advise Nation’s Poor To Invent The Next Facebook
WASHINGTONClaiming that no other feasible option exists for the United States legions of destitute citizens, a panel of the nations top economists convened Wednesday to advise Americas poor to extricate themselves from poverty by inventing the next Facebook. As unemployment holds steady and lower-class income plummets, the best and, frankly, only option for the countrys working poor is to try and come up with a new service like Facebook that forever changes how people communicate with one another, and then monetize it, said Brookings Institution socioeconomics expert Richard Reeves, emphasizing that the nations approximately 50 million men, women, and children currently living under the poverty line will only be able to save themselves from lifelong misery if they somehow conceive of some kind of innovative website that permanently alters the worlds social and technological landscape. To be honest, with the gap between rich and poor only getting wider, theres really no middle ground here. Either invent another Facebook or languish in the gutter until you starve to death. Those are pretty much your options. So, you know, good luck. Reeves added that a good name for one of these revolutionary game changers that delivers its creator from a lifetime of hardship and suffering might be BuzzConne
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