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Originally Posted by MrPots
Allow me to correct you. Wages are the same as they were 40 years ago for the bottom 50% of our countries wage earners. While the corporations that pay those wages make billions in profits.
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Wages and prices can't rise forever. You can throw out stats like your post above, it may only be part of the story. There's also been some deflation in cost of goods and services that offset some, not all, of the impact. Its certainly not an ideal scenario, but neither is uncontrolled inflation.
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