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minus-squareaceshigh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-27 hours ago… if only the most expensive things stayed the same ratio - like mortgage/rent, health insurance, retirement, college. Minimum wage is $7.25, rent costs $1.5k. Got an A in macro, but only a B in micro. I wonder what happened…
minus-squareLePoisson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 hours agoYeah it’s wild how fucked our economy is. The divorce of worker productivity from worker pay leading to the huge wealth gap we see today is really bad for everyone but the 1%.
… if only the most expensive things stayed the same ratio - like mortgage/rent, health insurance, retirement, college. Minimum wage is $7.25, rent costs $1.5k. Got an A in macro, but only a B in micro. I wonder what happened…
Yeah it’s wild how fucked our economy is.
The divorce of worker productivity from worker pay leading to the huge wealth gap we see today is really bad for everyone but the 1%.