Income inequality is the one statistic you can point to when all the other economic stats show things getting better.
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PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 8 months agoBread and circus. There are some fundamentally broken aspects of society that can’t be glossed over with a Mitsubishi SVZ-KP12NA 1 Ton 18 SEER Ducted Central Air Inverter Heat Pump Split System. At no other point in modern history has the population been forced to labor as much as it does today. We are enjoying none of the fruits of our labor aside from minor conveniences that were still being forced to pay for. Income inequality is worse than ever in modern history.. Year-to-year fluctuations don’t counter the fact that we are on a centuries-running downturn that shows no sign of turning course anytime soon.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 months ago
intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 months ago
At no other point has the population been forced to labor as much as it does today
Are you not considering the time before the 40 hour work week was implemented?
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 8 months ago
People had to routinely work 12 hour days up to the 1930s. Labor conditions are bad now, but it’s wrong to say they were never worse.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Do you think there aren’t billions of people in the world still working 12+ hour days today? Hyundai cars and Tyson foods are employing actual children in their factories and slaughterhouses in America and getting a slap on the wrist. We just wrote a few laws to make it so that white men didn’t have to work that much as often and said we fixed it.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Is that true? Hyundai and Tyson using child labor?