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A Boring Dystopia
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Average real income (adjusted for inflation) has been pretty steady in the last 50 years for the bottom 50% bracket. The higher up you go in the income bracket the higher the growth becomes. The real income of the top 0.01% has grown by 670% in that same time. So you can see where all that extra wealth generated from 2x productivity boost has gone. Trickle up economics.
Source with nice graphs
*This is for the USA, but if you look at data for other countries the tendency is the same.
UK hasn't seen that same productivity increase but has seen the increasing inequality.
We know it's bullshit so we stopped trying to work hard.
"trickle up economics"
Aka ... Capitalism