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wasted life

DOGMERs! The lost decades, placing the blame squarely on boomers!

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DOGMERS Any thoughts or experience on the level of Dogmers (Dogma)+ (BOOMERS) surrounding the perceived by-products of freedom? Prohibition is quite fascinating, if not a little horrifying and sickening - perhaps a topic idea moving forward.  The CSA of 1970 (protection of middle class) and corporate write off (61% of all jobs created after 1994 were low wage jobs) while production and corporate profits up 120% -  Gave rise to the destruction of the middle class which is arguably the root of all the problems of modern North America (purpose and money), it is getting bad and the problems are only getting worse - look at the violence in Chicago and south of the border that is destroying Mexico.  If you are not concerned you should be - your neighborhood will be next and the corporate press refuses to acknowledge for reasons I can not explain.   ' We need the Controlled Substance Act to protect our children and our future' - at the time 70 percent of Ameri...

LOST DECADE CHARTS

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source: tradingeconomics.com To explore how real wage trends evolved over the 1979 to 2018 period, Figure 1 shows annualized wage growth rates over various time periods (roughly a decade each) by wage percentile and demographic group. Considering first wage growth at the 10th and 50th percentiles, Figure 1 reveals that the 10th percentile wage declined in real terms during the 1980s for all groups, and, with the exception of women , the median (50th percentile) wage declined as well. In the 1990s, 10th percentile and median wages increased for nearly all demographic groups. This was followed by a general slowdown (and some modest declines) in real wage growth in 2000- 2010, after which (i.e., 2010-2018) 10th percentile and median wages grew for all demographic groups. Annualized real wage growth at the 90th percentile was positive in all periods and for all demographic groups except black workers and Hispanic workers, for whom the 90th percentile wage declined slightly during the 19...