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noboostforyou on May 27, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: I salvaged $6k of luxury items discarded by Duke s...

> A fairly significant minority of wealthy people

Apologies if this is just a typo but I am really confused by this wording - isn't "significant minority" an oxymoron? If you had to express this as a percentage how many wealthy people are you saying got this way?

nemomarx on May 27, 2025 [–]

A quarter or third of a group would be a significant minority, I think? it just means non negligible really

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