sanitation@lemmy.today to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 3 days agoThe bosses don't pay their workers. Workers pay their bosses.lemmy.todayimagemessage-square104linkfedilinkarrow-up11.1Karrow-down115
arrow-up11.08Karrow-down1imageThe bosses don't pay their workers. Workers pay their bosses.lemmy.todaysanitation@lemmy.today to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square104linkfedilink
minus-squarePeaked@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkarrow-up26·3 days ago$4.00 in October 1937 has the same buying power as $91.78 in August 2026.
minus-squarePsythik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoDamn has there ever been a time where a working class American was paid a fair wage? Other than the brief period after WWII up until Reagan, that is.
minus-squareFlyingCircus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 days agoThat was still only a relatively small portion of the working class and even then it was only possible because the US took over control of global imperialism and were subsiding domestic worker wages with wealth extracted from the rest of the world.
minus-squareKullumDaue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agosurely not when you factor in in real estate 🙈
$4.00 in October 1937 has the same buying power as $91.78 in August 2026.
Damn has there ever been a time where a working class American was paid a fair wage? Other than the brief period after WWII up until Reagan, that is.
That was still only a relatively small portion of the working class and even then it was only possible because the US took over control of global imperialism and were subsiding domestic worker wages with wealth extracted from the rest of the world.
surely not when you factor in in real estate 🙈