Submitted by CrassostreaVirginica t3_11ea3x6 in rva
chairmanbrando t1_jadd7ih wrote
Reply to comment by plummbob in Richmond Public Schools principals unionize by CrassostreaVirginica
It's only the very thing that has been holding this country back for decades with stagnant wages while productivity and corporation profits continue to rise.
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plummbob t1_jadetov wrote
>stagnant wages
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Besides, absent land rents, capital share of net income isn't even that great
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class conflict is a nice theory if you need to a distant other to blame when you have actual market power from economic classes
but for locally caused problems -low public amenities, poor schools, underperforming infrastructure, high housing costs, pockets of intractable crime are all entirely RVA's locally sourced problems...and is it really the uber-rich causing the poor performance the these things?
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take this bonkers of a story. kinda hard to blame jeff bezo's for unsafe streets when its the residents themselves that turned out to protest improving them
gravy_boot t1_jadj2dy wrote
> doesn’t look flat to me
Is this data normalized to the cost of living, or anything else?
plummbob t1_jadk2rl wrote
whenever you see the word real in something like real income or real wages in a dataset like this, it means its adjusted for inflation.
gravy_boot t1_jaekpay wrote
Here's another image. It doesn't say real on it, but it is.
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