Each week, Untrickled curates essential stories on inequality in America. This edition explores how economic control and cultural authoritarianism often come from the same source.
Love this post and sent it to a friend - we were talking about the relaunch she saw. I enjoyed the original very much. Thx for the info anout the Log Lady
We can argue back and forth as to what is the truth. My nephew works in computers and computer programing. He says that there are plenty of jobs for computer programmers, in fact there is a huge shortage of them. Maybe other areas of computer work are appropriately staffed.
Just saying there is more income inequality now than right after World War II does NOT prove anything. Where are your statistics?, IF YOU HAVE any and you probably do not because you would have included statistics, they would show you are not telling the truth. With the computer advances people have more opportunities to make money in technology than they have ever had before. The problem is not that there are no good jobs available, there are. The problem is that people need to be educated to be able to perform these jobs. More jobs require education than ever before and if you do not have the education you cannot get the job. THE solution to this problem is to provide more educational opportunities for EVERYONE. We should make sure that adults also can get the education with no cost to them to retrain themselves if their job should become obsolete. We do need to offer more education at least cost for retraining. Again, the jobs are there, it is not a problem of not enough jobs, it is a problem of not enough education and training for those jobs.
Also, millions of recent college graduates who have all sorts of fresh, up-to-date training will tell you there are not, in fact, very many jobs out there.
While World War II did result in an increase in the GDP, it was FDR’s reforms that created the new distribution of that GDP and the brief age of shared prosperity that occurred until the Democrats adopted neoliberal principles of economics in the late 1970s as shown on the graph. That is when the trend of economic inequality started upward again.
Wow! I read Escape from Freedom in the late 60s. I don't remember if I read it in Danish or English!
Love this post and sent it to a friend - we were talking about the relaunch she saw. I enjoyed the original very much. Thx for the info anout the Log Lady
We can argue back and forth as to what is the truth. My nephew works in computers and computer programing. He says that there are plenty of jobs for computer programmers, in fact there is a huge shortage of them. Maybe other areas of computer work are appropriately staffed.
Just saying there is more income inequality now than right after World War II does NOT prove anything. Where are your statistics?, IF YOU HAVE any and you probably do not because you would have included statistics, they would show you are not telling the truth. With the computer advances people have more opportunities to make money in technology than they have ever had before. The problem is not that there are no good jobs available, there are. The problem is that people need to be educated to be able to perform these jobs. More jobs require education than ever before and if you do not have the education you cannot get the job. THE solution to this problem is to provide more educational opportunities for EVERYONE. We should make sure that adults also can get the education with no cost to them to retrain themselves if their job should become obsolete. We do need to offer more education at least cost for retraining. Again, the jobs are there, it is not a problem of not enough jobs, it is a problem of not enough education and training for those jobs.
Also, millions of recent college graduates who have all sorts of fresh, up-to-date training will tell you there are not, in fact, very many jobs out there.
That’s a Republican myth.
These statistics that support the conclusion that economic inequality has increased dramatically since the Second World war is the Gini coefficient. Refer to Picketty's graph of it that goes back to 1910 to see the trend. https://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/pikettys-inequality-story-in-six-charts
While World War II did result in an increase in the GDP, it was FDR’s reforms that created the new distribution of that GDP and the brief age of shared prosperity that occurred until the Democrats adopted neoliberal principles of economics in the late 1970s as shown on the graph. That is when the trend of economic inequality started upward again.