Low wages

Won't the tariffs just offset a lot of it though when you're buying shit, unless its American made or another country?

>wages go down for 40 years straight
>go up for 1-2 years
>this guy
If Trump keeps up this growth for another 10 years straight, you might have a point. He will have trouble securing that third term though

Want to know how I know you'll always be poor?

i drive an old bmw

Weve already had tariffs in effect for like 6-9 months, it hasnt hurt us yet

And that's when Don Jr steps in :)

the whole western world is run for the sake of investors

I make 80k in Oakland CA. Is this good or bad ?

Capitalism. Boss/board is only (and can be only in this system, because otherwise someone else will replace him/them) interested in profit. He will drain you as much as he can get away with. You will not resist because you are alienated from other workers and alone you have absurdly low bargaining power. Other workers are your competition or just strangers who don't give a shit about you just as much you don't give shit about them. You will not resist because you don't even know how. This is a great success of capitalist realism and propaganda. You want to know how to earn more? Organize, unionize, educate yourself (books or videos on topics of libertarian socialism or anarcho-syndicalism). Build power in numbers because you are against people with excessive wealth and power who control the narrative and the system.

or be a good boy, invest in crypto and you will surely make it.
and go STEM

>10% pay raise last year
>4% pay raise this year after taking new job
>Company average pay raise is 2%
I think I'm doing good relative to everyone else, but this company doesn't pay enough for me to be extravagant.

>got a 3% raise this year
>took another offer for a 35% pay increase a week later
>B-but user, you're so important, please don't leave.

Either they are treating you like shit, or you are shit. Find out what someone else will pay for you.

wages aren't low
your fiat is just losing value

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Source on wages going down for 40 years?

>low tier NEET incel fantasy
At least it isn't furry flavored

Considering I made that in ks and feel poor, no.

lareviewofbooks.org/article/why-your-rent-is-so-high-and-your-pay-is-so-low-tom-streithorst/#!

This will answer your question, blame the Reagan and Thatcher era

Why are you retards even on this board? Can't you all just fuck off and die?

OP's wages are low because his income is being stolen to feed niggers and build high tech bombs, don't blame some fucking rando boss

This is the blackest of pills

Destroy the environment? For shareholder returns

Let in a billion turd worlders? For shareholder returns

Crush productivity gains into wage suppression? Shareholder returns

The cult of maximizing shareholder returns will destroy what was once the shining city on the hill, yielding a brazil tier hellhole

How do we kill the "shareholder value" meme?

This is why China will win eventually. Even a five year plan as flawed as it can be is better than switching directions every quarter.

To be fair productivity gains come from.computers and software so why shouldn't they be returned to the shareholders?

Because the gains to capital outpace all other gains and the iron law of compound interest means you end up with a 1% hyperrich elite, 4% comfortable managerial class, and 95% unwashed horde of illiterates depending on gibs as a means of preventing a violent revolution

Not the sort of world you want to live in

Besides, the concept of shareholders as the only concern ignores society, workers, citizens, the country, the environment, etc etc as ‘externalities’