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Uniparty policies of the last 50 years were all about lowering wages to benefit the elite


               
2021 Jan 7, 10:33pm   410 views  11 comments

by Patrick   follow (59)  

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/american-crises-capitol-assault

The strategy of American business, encouraged by neoliberal Democrats and libertarian conservative Republicans alike since the 1970s, has been to lower labor costs in the United States, not by substituting labor-saving technology for workers, but by schemes of labor arbitrage: offshoring jobs when possible to poorly paid workers in other countries and substituting unskilled immigrants willing to work for low wages in some sectors, like meatpacking and construction and farm labor. American business has also driven down wages by smashing unions in the private sector, which now have fewer members—a little more than 6% of the private sector workforce—than they did under Herbert Hoover. Another wage-suppressing tactic of American business is replacing full-time employees with benefits with part-time contractors or gig workers with lower wages and no benefits. The MAGA assault on Capitol Hill came shortly after it was announced that Albertsons, the grocery company that owns Vons, Pavilion, and other chains in California, is firing full-time delivery drivers and replacing them with gig workers.

Most of the jobs that the U.S. economy has created for the past few decades have been poorly paying. That isn’t going to change soon. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the three jobs with the most projected growth in numbers between now and 2029 are “home health and personal care aides” ($25,280 a year), fast food and counter workers ($22,740), and “cooks, restaurant” ($27,790). Remember the predictions in the 1990s that those who lost well-paid unionized jobs in the manufacturing sector would mostly get new, better-paying jobs in the “knowledge economy”? Didn’t work out.

Both sexes suffer in the new economy with lots of unstable, crappy, low-wage jobs. But to denounce patriarchy in today’s America is anachronistic. According to LinkedIn, women are 16% more likely than men to be hired—and 18% more likely if the role is higher than their current position. Today women in college outnumber college men by 57% to 43%. In two-earner families, which the American ruling class promotes as the new norm, one of the major factors correlated with divorce is a wife who makes more money than her husband.

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1   Patrick   2021 Jan 7, 10:37pm  

From the same guy's book:

Michael Lind, one of America’s leading thinkers, debunks the idea that the insurgencies are primarily the result of bigotry, traces how the breakdown of mid-century class compromises between business and labor led to the conflict, and reveals the real battle lines.

On one side is the managerial overclass—the university-credentialed elite that clusters in high-income hubs and dominates government, the economy and the culture. On the other side is the working class of the low-density heartlands—mostly, but not exclusively, native and white.

The two classes clash over immigration, trade, the environment, and social values, and the managerial class has had the upper hand. As a result of the half-century decline of the institutions that once empowered the working class, power has shifted to the institutions the overclass controls: corporations, executive and judicial branches, universities, and the media.


https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/607661/the-new-class-war-by-michael-lind/

I don't agree with everything he says, but I think he has this much right.
2   HeadSet   2021 Jan 8, 7:35am  

American business has also driven down wages by smashing unions in the private sector,

A very big lie here. Unions are allied with the Democrat Party, and are only interested in Government Unions. Government Unions have grown tremendously. Unions are allied with the Dems to flood the country with illegals, and such an alliance runs counter to anyone concerned about American workers. Unions also do not do squat about HxB abuse. A real union would be picketing the heck out of Disney and Apple, but do not picket because these companies are strong Dem allies.
3   Patrick   2025 Jun 24, 1:20pm  

https://nypost.com/2025/06/17/us-news/blue-collar-wage-growth-under-trump-sees-largest-increase-in-nearly-60-years-bessent/


Blue-collar wage growth under Trump sees largest increase in nearly 60 years, Treasury sec reveals on Pod Force One
By Miranda Devine
Published June 17, 2025

Blue-collar workers have seen real wage growth of almost two percent in the first five months of President Donald Trump’s second term, the largest increase for any administration in nearly 60 years.

The 1.7% pay bump is in stark contrast to negative growth under Joe Biden, according to new data from the US Department of the Treasury.

Since Richard Nixon in 1969, Trump has been the only president to record positive growth for blue-collar workers in his first five months. He also achieved 1.3% in his first term.

The recovery from a 1.7% decline recorded in Biden’s first five months, as inflation outpaced earnings, suggests a shift in economic conditions for this financially stressed segment of the workforce.

“The only other time it’s been this high was… during President Trump’s first term,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told me on the latest episode of the “Pod Force One” podcast, out Wednesday.


4   TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter   2025 Jun 24, 1:48pm  

That 1980s National Science report too. They were mad people were making a great living with just a Bach or Masters, forgoing PhDs, so they flooded the labor market with foreigners and promoted PhD programs like crazy
5   FortWayneHatesRealtors   2025 Jun 24, 2:25pm  

AmericanKulakMaximumTrumper says

That 1980s National Science report too. They were mad people were making a great living with just a Bach or Masters, forgoing PhDs, so they flooded the labor market with foreigners and promoted PhD programs like crazy


oh they flooded us with just about everything, not thinking our system has limits.
6   HeadSet   2025 Jun 24, 5:44pm  

AmericanKulakMaximumTrumper says

They were mad people were making a great living with just a Bach or Masters, forgoing PhDs

A PhD is primarily to teach.
7   Patrick   2025 Jun 30, 1:42pm  

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1939529326397194421


@WallStreetApes

American describes his town after ICE raids 🇺🇸

“In one week I have seen in my city, black men power washing parking lots. Black men doing roofing work, black men doing lawn services around businesses. In my city, things are starting to look like the old days again”
8   MolotovCocktail   2025 Jun 30, 2:38pm  

Patrick says


https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1939529326397194421


WallStreetApes

American describes his town after ICE raids 🇺🇸

“In one week I have seen in my city, black men power washing parking lots. Black men doing roofing work, black men doing lawn services around businesses. In my city, things are starting to look like the old days again”




Nooooo shit!


11   MolotovCocktail   2025 Jul 1, 11:05pm  

gabbar says






Yeah. And that stupidity is how we got Wilson, the income tax, the federal reserve and us into WW1.

Same thing got us BJ Bill in 1992.

Real, real stupid.

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