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I'm referring to some of the rhetoric used to sell the current so called "decline" (authoritarian or economic). I believe they call them wedge issues? Every cul

• msgodel 1y ago
  So you disagree with the article and believe there isn't a decline?
  • cropcirclbureau 1y ago
    There's an obvious decline in income inequality and other metrics of economic egalitarianism in the U.S. A big part of these stats has always been the labor for those industries with undocumented labor, prison labor and the like but recently, wages for your average service worker have failed to keep up with inflation and, on a longer horizon, productivity gains. These gains are in big part from automation, and I suppose owners feel entitled to that share of the pie but with gig work, monopolies and mega-corps slicing up the economy amongst themselves, workers have generally have it worse than their forebears. Economists and sociologists have been forever talking about this.