40% of Americans Now Make Less Than 1968 Minimum Wage

How is this globalism thing working for ya?

Not to well, is it? More like global enslavement.

Ermm, maybe labor unions just made labor too expensive so corporations went after cheaper labor? And, if labor unions were so concerned about everyone's job, not just fattening their own pockets, maybe they would have used their muscle to get congress to impose some kind of tariffs to make imports as expensive as goods made in the US?

Maybe unions, and particularly their bosses, are liberal commie sellout shills.

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Holy fuck that is about the dumbest piece of shit statement i have read all night here .

You never go full-retard. Unions are at least a little bit look out for the workers, pay, insurance. I have worked many jobs and union ones were always a bit better than jobs without them. Self employed is the best way to go though.

Maybe people haven't acquired the skills that deserve more than minimum wage

that may mean only one peron employed small business talk to you in 2014

As long as the people are saddled with these maggots (Central Banksters) we will be kept as subjugated slaves.

Unless and until we THROW OFF these parasites, we will continue to be plunged into poverty and eventually sheer desperation.

Meanwhile, they will continue to be REWARDED for their evils, living in UNIMAGINABLE weatlh and luxury.

The ONLY good news, is that these people HAVE their reward here and now. The WILL have their place in the Lake of Fire.

Great. Let's all go outside with our AR-15's and fucking celebrate.

you have to factor in how much of the productiviy growth can be contributed to technology.

Greed made this happen,on both sides

Damn libs. Trying to increase the minimum wage and all that BS.

No it's not dumb. It's right on the fucking money, except for the unions making labor too expensive part. Unions should have been doing alot of things, like organizing in Mexico with everything they had, and going to fucking war with the free traders. They sat on their hands instead.

That's true, and it should have resulted in higher wages not lower. If 100 men work in a factory and 90 of them are replaced by robots, the remaining 10 can make 9X more money and the company still comes out way ahead. And they should be making 9X more. Those 10 workers couldn't be replaced by robotics, that means their labor is valuable. Valuable labor demands valuable wages.

Facking full blown shill alert. They are going all OUT discredit. Thanks OP YOU HITTTTT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD.

That is a false indicator because the rate is dependent on number of hours worked also and not just amount per hour. Raise it and hours get cut.

The 9x is divided between the robot costs and the shareholders pockets, the man still makes 1x

What about built in redundancy, after a war there is a busy reconstruction period and then a slowdown. Rather than businesses building a product that lasts 10 years instead of 50 they should just change the item produced every 10 years and have 5 products that they produce on a rotation basis. The idea is to have things to do for the people 'on time off' so it is not a burden.

Well at least i can say i make a dollar and 5 cents more than the bare minimum

In 1968 minimum wage was $1.60/hr
Today, minimum wage is $7.25/hr

In 1968, gold was 39.31/oz
Today, gold is 1580/oz

Therefore, at minimum wage..
In 1968, you'd have to work 25 hours to buy 1 oz of gold.
Today, you'd have to work 218 hours to buy 1 oz of gold.

For the last twenty years, since Clinton became president really, I have noticed how the American people are so brainwashed that they will not stand up for anything. They are too afraid that speaking out will end in them losing the benefits of being a mindful little sheep. GO along with the liberal doctrine and do not tell the truth. You could get kicked out of school, harassed at your job, fired from work and stalked by braindead college students who believe everything their shill professors tell them.

Harassment, stalking and threats are par for the course of the new liberal America. It costs money of course. Much more than any conservative government would even with two wars and a major disaster. Imagine that.

The threats extend to a complaceny in the American populace. I will take what I can because if I complain I could lose it all.

I am so tired of the BS but this is over and done with really. America needed to do something before this point. Now it is just the fall. That is all that is left because no one would tell the truth.

Live in fear and it only gets worse.

sources..
min wage: [link to www.dol.gov]
gold prices: [link to www.nma.org]

so from this i conclude that gold is money.
these paper dollars are not.

Dipshit. in 1968 it didn't cost a business anywhere near what it does now to employ a person. Your mythical "1%" boogeyman is bogus propaganda. Remove the cost of labor and wages will increase. Remove the pool of about 10 million potential illegal alien workers and wages will increase.

Don't read this topic if you're already depressed, because this is one depressing topic.

Its the private sectors failings, supported by a spineless government.

illegals do jobs no US citizen would take. Get real.

Not a single person yet in this thread has identified the problem. Not surprising.

Truth - documentary trailer

[link to www.youtube.com]

saw this trailer the other day. watched it like a dozen times lol. cant wait for the whole thing to come out.

I thought most GLP'ers wanted to do away with the minimum wage and pay everybody 10 cents/hour??