Comment on The billionaires and politicians did it

• AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As I understand it, it’s the effect of a number of policy decisions intended in the surface to stabilize the economy. They stopped approving minimum wage hikes, they accepted a higher rate of unemployment due to factory automation, etc. Also, the difference between worker and executive compensation has grown tremendously. image

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• WalnutLum@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• Zink@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can only answer your question with a question: wtfhappenedin1971.com

  It’s crazy seeing how old the graphs on that site are now.

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