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How the hell was this ever a myth…? It’s trivially shown to be complete and utter garbage.. Anyone pushing this type of pseudo-ideology should be laughed out

• Jensson 5y ago
  Trickle down is true. A McDonalds worker in a rich country earns much more than a McDonalds worker in India. You get paid more the more those around you get paid even if you yourself don't become more productive, that correlation is a fact. Trickle down is the natural state of things, USA just prevented it from doing so. By importing low skill labor/exporting low skill jobs, making unions hostile to workers and not keeping minimum wage up it made less trickle down. Change any of those and trickle down would have worked, if workers had better legal support for effective worker friendly unions like Europe then they could get their rights themselves, if low skill jobs exceeded supply of low skill workers then pay would go up naturally, and if the government mandated a minimum wage so unions don't have to then it would have the same effect as a union. But USA went against all of those and ensured that money wouldn't trickle down.