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This is stunning. New data out today: real wages are in decline, while corporate profits soar, after the GOP tax cuts.Link to tweet
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Imagine a chart comparing hourly wage rates v. ceo 'profits'
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Look left, look right.
If you're not a traitor, thief, and Nazi, then (statistically) one of the two people you just looked at is.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Though I prefer McCartneys 🎶 vision, it is pretty evident that what rules this nations current hate driven corporate motivation is ...he who dies with the most money wins.
Small victory...they will still die.
Takket
(21,620 posts)Is that wages arent moving because decades of slowly eroding unions have left the worker essentially powerless to demand their fair share of the pie.
Yavin4
(35,445 posts)SamKnause
(13,110 posts)Republicans continue to successfully sell Supply Side Economics, (trickle down).
The evidence shows the exact opposite happens.
All of their selling points are lies.
They have zero evidence to back up their claims.
All of the evidence is against their claims.
This is intentional.
They won't stop until they have every penny from Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.
Republicans are EVIL, CORRUPT, LIARS !!!!!!!!!
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)This kind of data analysis is always ignored.
ps...you are kickin some ass this morning!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Did anyone really expect anything else? Our company's stock is the highest I have seen it in years. Only the people at the very top get bonuses. The rest of us get profit sharing in the form of company stock. My salary has stayed flat.
nature-lover
(1,470 posts)dalton99a
(81,570 posts)lamp_shade
(14,841 posts)CrispyQ
(36,509 posts)gain & benefit, fuck everyone else.
Farmergene
(76 posts)Is such a misnomer. By now the real name for this should be well known as "Feed the Greed"
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,034 posts)It will change and become more balanced again, one way or another; peacefully or by revolution. These levels can't be sustained.
These levels are similar to the late 1920s. Fortunately, the USA got socialism-lite instead of communism.
Vote Democrat in 2018 and 2020.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Only those who never paid attention.
elias7
(4,026 posts)The poorer you make people, the more malleable they are to demagoguery. Kill the unions, then blame the unions for killing the business