@return2ozma to News • 2 months ago'We are essentially in a new Gilded Age’: As workers get laid off, CEOs and shareholders gobble up hundreds of billions in profitsfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square74arrow-up1646arrow-down17file-textcross-posted to: workreformaboringdystopia[email protected]economy
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minus-square@Telodzrumlink-50•2 months agoWeird, employment is up right near full employment, real wages are up, and quality of life has never been higher by any metric. Is this just about tech layoffs due to overtraining the workforce and excess supply? Neat.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•2 months agoWasn’t this also the case in the gilded age?
Weird, employment is up right near full employment, real wages are up, and quality of life has never been higher by any metric.
Is this just about tech layoffs due to overtraining the workforce and excess supply? Neat.
Inequality is up.
Wasn’t this also the case in the gilded age?