And here is something that we don't talk about enough and it tells us why the American people are furious. Today, the average worker in America, despite a huge explosion in technology and worker productivity, that The average worker is earning less money per week in inflation accounted for dollars than he or she did 52 years ago. So slow. Hard to understand what's happened over the last 50 years. The very richest people in this country have become much richer while 800,000 people today sleep out on the street. (12:00–12:26)
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Asserts that average worker wages have decreased over 52 years when adjusted for inflation.
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