@BonesOfTheMoon to Political Memes • 3 months agoConservatives don't understand how to human.imagemessage-square150arrow-up11.56Karrow-down126
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minus-squareObjectivityIncarnatelink1•3 months agoAre you aware that that would be more than double what the (inflation-adjusted, of course) minimum wage has ever been in US history?
minus-squareObjectivityIncarnatelink3•3 months agoTL;DR: The EPI graph isn’t measuring productivity vs. pay, even for “typical workers”; it’s measuring wage inequality, and images like these are the visual equivalent of out-of-context half-truth soundbites: https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/6rtoh4/productivity_pay_gap_in_epi_we_trust/
Are you aware that that would be more than double what the (inflation-adjusted, of course) minimum wage has ever been in US history?
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TL;DR: The EPI graph isn’t measuring productivity vs. pay, even for “typical workers”; it’s measuring wage inequality, and images like these are the visual equivalent of out-of-context half-truth soundbites:
https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/6rtoh4/productivity_pay_gap_in_epi_we_trust/
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