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Wake up babe new middle class just dropped

This meme uses the popular "Wake up babe new X just dropped" format for sarcastic effect. The text at the top reads "Wake up babe new middle class just dropped", followed by a list of 6 of the world's wealthiest tech billionaires with their net worths: Larry Page (Google, $301B), Sergey Brin (Google, $277.6B), Jeff Bezos (Amazon, $254.1B), Michael Dell (Dell Technologies, $234.5B), Larry Ellison (Oracle, $231.6B), and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook, $198.2B). The joke is extreme hyperbole and irony: it refers to these ultra-rich multi-billionaires as the "new middle class", paired with the original submission title "look at the poor people" to mock the staggering gap between the world's wealthiest people and average working class individuals.
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Wake up babe new middle class just dropped

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This meme uses the popular "Wake up babe new X just dropped" format for sarcastic effect. The text at the top reads "Wake up babe new middle class just dropped", followed by a list of 6 of the world's wealthiest tech billionaires with their net worths: Larry Page (Google, $301B), Sergey Brin (Google, $277.6B), Jeff Bezos (Amazon, $254.1B), Michael Dell (Dell Technologies, $234.5B), Larry Ellison (Oracle, $231.6B), and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook, $198.2B). The joke is extreme hyperbole and irony: it refers to these ultra-rich multi-billionaires as the "new middle class", paired with the original submission title "look at the poor people" to mock the staggering gap between the world's wealthiest people and average working class individuals.

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This meme was sourced from the Reddit r/Meme subreddit via RSS feed, with the original user-submitted title "look at the poor people". It is a remix of the widely used "Wake up babe new [thing] just dropped" meme template, combined with public data of top global billionaires' net worths to create a sarcastic commentary on wealth inequality.

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