• merdaverse@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    30
    ·
    edit-2
    2 days ago

    Average real income (adjusted for inflation) has been pretty steady in the last 50 years for the bottom 50% bracket. The higher up you go in the income bracket the higher the growth becomes. The real income of the top 0.01% has grown by 670% in that same time. So you can see where all that extra wealth generated from 2x productivity boost has gone. Trickle up economics.

    Source with nice graphs

    *This is for the USA, but if you look at data for other countries the tendency is the same.

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      2 days ago

      UK hasn’t seen that same productivity increase but has seen the increasing inequality.

      We know it’s bullshit so we stopped trying to work hard.