So much for "progress"

https://lemmy.world/post/23759605

So much for "progress" - Lemmy.World

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23707642 [https://lemmy.world/post/23707642]

The stat he’s missing that answers the question is what happened to per capita GDP (14.6x)? Gains there went somewhere, and it sure as shit isn’t in the median household.
Every time someone says GDP is good for “the economy”, I mentally convert that to “the rich”.