What's really pushing down the wages is the lack of tariffs on imports.
As long as the entire world is shipping off its manufacturing to China and the English speaking world is shipping off its services to India, the wages are gonna KEEP GOING down.
We've made our goods temporarily cheaper and made a bunch of big businesses a lot of money.
In return we lost lots of jobs and quite a bit of manufacturing capabilities, which will eventually bite us in the asses (the job loss already has been at it for a while).
We're now mostly a third-world resource economy.
The attacks on organized labor from right-wing propaganda machine have just accelerated the erosion of the middle class without giving the society any clear benefits.
As long as the entire world is shipping off its manufacturing to China and the English speaking world is shipping off its services to India, the wages are gonna KEEP GOING down.
We've made our goods temporarily cheaper and made a bunch of big businesses a lot of money.
In return we lost lots of jobs and quite a bit of manufacturing capabilities, which will eventually bite us in the asses (the job loss already has been at it for a while).
We're now mostly a third-world resource economy.
The attacks on organized labor from right-wing propaganda machine have just accelerated the erosion of the middle class without giving the society any clear benefits.