Working for peanuts: Half of American workers earn less than $28,031 per year and household income now back to levels last seen two decades ago.

Posted by UncommonSense 9 years, 6 months ago to Economics
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For those who like to argue over numbers & graphs & other financial information; here is an article that takes it's information directly from the social insecurity's own research. Life has gotten much harder for 'the little guy' and this article clearly shows it. No tax write off's here. No hedging against inflation. No hope & no positive change. Trolls are not welcome to cover this up with sugar. It's the raw truth ~ deal with it.
SOURCE URL: http://www.mybudget360.com/per-capita-wage-americans-median-wage-americans-social-seurity/


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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 6 months ago
    Technology will increase return on capital and decrease the value of labor. As this article puts it, there's a "discrepancy between Wall St and Main St."

    The solution IMHO is to have a culture that doesn't look at "how's the economy doing", "how are recent grads doing", or "how's my ethnic/demographic group doing", but rather looks around their own environment and finds creative ways to solve problems and serve people for money. I do not know how to get from to here to there. I hope it happens organically out of kids playing with social media and seeing other kids succeed in solving problems.

    The problem of capital earning more money and workers stagnating or earning less will tempt people to adopt bad policies.

    The only part I disagree with is the article's lines about inflation. The author seems to think if the dollar were worth 50% more, labor would cost the same nominal amount. It wouldn't. Suppose a reel of resistors costs $30 and an hour of someone running the pick-and-place machine that uses that reel also costs $30. If there had been no inflation over the past 20 years, the reel and and hour of labor would each cost $20. The worker would not, as the author suggests, earn $30 and be loading a machine with a $20 reel of resistors.
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    • Posted by Technocracy 9 years, 6 months ago
      What is it you are trying to be the thought police?

      First people should stop inordinately obsessing over the price of gasoline.

      Now you don't want them to look at how the economy is doing or how grads are doing or how my group is doing.

      How about you quit trying to tell people how and what to think.
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      • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 5 months ago
        "Now you don't want them to look at how the economy is doing or how grads are doing or how my group is doing. "
        People are free to think in terms of their group identity if they desire, but it doesn't get results the way focusing on yourself does.
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