What's the answer? Well, you know the answer. And I want you to take a step back and think about it. An explosion in technology, increase in worker productivity. And yet The average American worker today is making $40 a week less in inflation adjusted weekly income than he or she did 50 years ago. So what's going on? Well, Rand Corporation, not exactly a progressive group, they did a study on income and wealth inequality, and what they found is that over the same 50 years, there has been a massive redistribution of wealth. (34:52–35:04)
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Asserts that real wages for American workers have decreased over the past 50 years.
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