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Rich families spend a tiny fraction of wealth on food

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Engel's Law is a brutally simple observation about inequality: as a household's available funds increase, the proportional share they drop on groceries plummets. While impoverished households spend most of their existence just trying to afford calories, billionaires barely notice the grocery bill, freeing up capital to purchase ridiculous sports cars.

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