Media Shy About Discussing Spiraling Down Wages And Spiraling up Cost Of Living.

[TheMastersNemesis]

During the Kennedy era there was a lot of brouhaha about the "wage price spiral". The business community was in a near panic because wages were going up too fast mostly because of good union jobs that effected non union workers getting better pay and benefits at the time. Now that wages are spiraling down, living costs and insane profits are spiraling up like a tsunami the media and conservative and GOP politicians support wages continuing to spin down.

We hear it all the time the minimum wage is too high. We don't need a minimum wage. We are too regulated and need less government meaning we really don't need labor laws or enforcement of decent working conditions. And so many workers seem to buy this free market tripe. Workers have been convinced that they can make on their own merit by working longer hours, getting more and more education to compete in the global economy.

The sad part is that "competing in the global economy" means that you have inflating experience requirements with deflating pay and benefits. KEEP IT UP WORKERS STAY ANTI UNION AND ANTI GOVERNMENT. STAY PRO CORPORATION AND BUSINESS AND YOU TOO CAN HAVE A PHD IN ENGINEERING WHILE YOU WORK FOR PENNIES ON THE EQUAL TO THIRD WORLD PAY.

Meanwhile the corporate media and its business allies will remain silent on the issue while they attack greedy workers.

[fredamae]

1. It's corp media

imo disallowing these discussions.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Control the agenda, control the message, never fails. They are not shy, it is the plan.

[Laelth]

3. k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t

-Laelth

[Enthusiast]

4. Kicked and recommended!

Thank you, TheMastersNemesis.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. The common people need to organize on an international level

to combat the power of the international corporations. And it has to be much broader in scope than just conventional labor unions.

National labor organizations can't hope to win against international forces that have the power to create and enforce transnational "trade agreements" that vitiate whatever national-level regulations the unions might manage to pass. It's not a matter of a level playing field. It's a matter of one team not being allowed on the field at all.

[TheMastersNemesis]

6. I Was In Junior College When Kennedy Was President And Remember The Wage Spiral Meme

As a matter of fact there was a pic in the paper of me standing in a crowd as his motorcade passed by my school one day. And he was right out their waving his hand at us. On of my classmates tried to shake his hand as his car passed by and almost got knocked down by a Secret Service agent. That was 1963.

The media was having a conniption with the wage price spiral meme. The unions were strong and people were getting raises. And business was saying they had to keep raising prices unless wages essentially stagnated. There was a lot of same bullshit back then pushed by the GOP. Their base did not have any billionaires yet.