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Back then the CEO made 20x the workers' salary. Now it's 300x. This is the winner-take-all Trump is protecting.

Back then the CEO made 20x the workers' salary. Now it's 300x. This is the winner-take-all Trump is protecting. | FROM 1939 TO 1950, WORKERS' PAY MORE THAN DOUBLED, WHILE EXECUTIVE PAY ROSE ONLY 35%. ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION, FROM THE REAGAN INAUGURATION TILL NOW, WORKERS HAVE NOT HAD A RAISE, WHILE EXECUTIVES MAKE 350 TIMES AS MUCH. | image tagged in factory,workers,pay,reagan,boss | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
281 views 5 upvotes Made by This.is.how.Rome.fell. 5 years ago in politics
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1 up, 4y
Because Workers' Unions are Democrat Slaves, exporting jobs to Red China
1 up, 4y,
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Deep Thoughts | SO YOU'RE BLAMING TRUMP FOR SOMETHING THAT GOES BACK TO 1970? | image tagged in deep thoughts | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
This is why Leftists are not taken seriously. There's no thought, just: ORANGE MAN BAD
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2 ups, 4y,
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He's not blaming trump, if you read it carefully, slowly. He's saying it's what trump is protecting, decades of rich getting richer, trump is in fact one of those rich getting richer guys. If trump wants to be a man and stand for something , he could work to fix it, but no, those are his friends. You've had the same minimum wage for 20 years, how's that working out? And that's why you righties can't be taken seriously, ckmprehension
1 up, 4y
Semantic rambling again, You must have been born in the last couple of years you don’t seem to know anything of history and think decades of past stagnation are related to the current administration. 8 years of Obama and 4 years of that with Democratic Majority, also 8 years of Clinton and his backstab to the working man.
0 ups, 4y
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He IS blaming Trump for its continuance, you need to read slower. For most of that time period Democrats have had one or both houses of Congress. So Trump has been in for 3 years and you guys conveniently ignore the 50 years that Dems were running Congress.

I love how you use my words to try to dunk on me. Doesn't work , but that's how I know my argument is effective. Try using your own words. Ii believe in you.
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Hay sewmyeyes.... You stated "20 years of the same minimum wage"??? Maybe in Canada but in the US that isn't true.
Perhaps you should try and at least educate yourself on the country who's policies your crapping on before you come off as just another Trump hating libtard.

Minimum wage jobs are a starting point for unskilled youth or people in the service industry that get tips which the Democrats pushed to tax said tips, minimum wage jobs aren't intended to be a career.
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2 ups, 4y
Minimum wage in Canada is between $12-$15/hr. Last time I made $7hr was 1990, starting wage pushing a broom currently for a company I sub off is $18/hr. It's not just entry level jobs either. Some people can only have service industry jobs, working the tills, stock, food services etc. Take a look at some of the people working in malls, gas stations etc, not all kids or students, what about during school hrs? Who do you think works in those malls, big box stores and service jobs? It's not ideal, but that's all some can do, and whom do you think explouts that?
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This is an Something we should all be unified against though I don’t blame Trump for it. The Globalist corporations are extremely efficient in penny pinching labor cost usually on the frontline workers. Unfortunately we can never address this because we are set against each other against our common interests by divisive lunatics
Feeding into the diversionary plots of the elites.
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It's more complicated than the current public debate acknowledges. It used to be that a single wage earner could support a family completely, but now that is very difficult for most families.
Wages tracked with GDP until about 1970 and that's when wages began to stagnate. Among the reasons for this (I'm sure there are other reasons as well) the workforce nearly doubled as more women joined the workforce, this added a downward pressure on wages because more people were competing for jobs and employers could hire workers for less pay. Adding illegal workers to the mix, only adds more downward pressure and makes the problem worse. Employers will pay employees more, only when employees become scarce.

Some people just can't resist hunting down someone to blame when most of these "issues" are the results of large scale social changes.
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You're sure making alot of excuses. All bullshit. Well I certainly don't see tRump or the republicans doing anything at all to rectify the situation either, nothing, nada, zero, zilch.
0 ups, 4y
What you call "excuses" are some of the reasons the market has changed over a macro period. I understand it's not something where you can blame someone and you might not understand it all that well, but it's definitely not bullshit. It's reasonable, and it's true. Calling something bullshit is not a refutation. Counter with facts, which you won't find on what the media outlets tell you to repeat. Silly parrot
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FROM 1939 TO 1950, WORKERS' PAY MORE THAN DOUBLED, WHILE EXECUTIVE PAY ROSE ONLY 35%. ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION, FROM THE REAGAN INAUGURATION TILL NOW, WORKERS HAVE NOT HAD A RAISE, WHILE EXECUTIVES MAKE 350 TIMES AS MUCH.