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American Workers Screwed Like Never Before, Key Metric Shouts
Remember when labor, as an economic actor with clout, was back?
No? Me neither, but for a fleeting
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Productivity is an economic con game designed to fill the bank accounts of corporations and C-suite executives. When workers combine to increase output they earn nothing extra for their trouble but a sore back, the loss of their health care, and a boot on their neck.
Yeah, but how else are we supposed to fund tax cuts for billionaires? We’re in a race to have the world’s first trillionaire and our national pride is on the line. Sacrifices have to be made.
That about sums it up. How long before the workers figure out the math. Maybe that’s why the ruling class has been so hot to gut the unions.
Just look at that first chart on “Hard Labor,” post pandemic, and there is your “vibecession” right there.