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It’s time to say. “May the Fourth be with you.”

#StarWarsDay

This graph and research highlights the effects of stagnate earning on the working classes.

TL;DR — Since 1979 there is no significant increase in hourly earnings while productivity (and profits) have increased noticeably.

But it’s all that frivolous experiential spending and avocado toast that’s sinking the next generations,

Source: https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

While the EPI has a (left leaning) bias, their facts aren’t false.

#WorkingClassProblems #WealthGap #GenerationalWealth

The Productivity–Pay Gap

The huge gap between rising incomes at the top and stagnating pay for the rest of us shows that workers are no longer benefiting from their rising productivity. Before 1979, worker pay and productivity grew in tandem. But since 1979, productivity has grown eight times faster than typical worker pay (hourly compensation of production/nonsupervisory workers).

Economic Policy Institute
Nooooooo! Why do you do this to me Ranch 99?! You know I’m weak, in the face of Sailor Jupiter! Must resist these $2 sodas …
Heh, my follower count is … “nice”.
New kicks. These make me disproportionately happy.

Originally from @raymondcamden

I am reposting to add alt text

And I also agree with Raymond, this fortune goes real hard.

The fortune reads “The fact that others are bad does not imply that you are good.”

It’s #Caterday so … have a cat.
Just before #Caterday ends here’s my addition of my singularity of a black cat on my pillow.
It’s #Caterday so here’s my addition to #CatsOfMastodon
Who dropped the singularity here?
#BlackCat world problems.