Our economy a must read

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from the first article:


The causes of this middle-class decline are many, from globalization (jobs being shipped overseas), to the decline of private-sector unions, to the wholesale embrace of a "shareholder value" religion that values profit over everything else that companies produce. But the result of the trend can be seen vividly in two charts


the underlined part is a HUGE reason for our current problems, with companies going as automated as possible, and with burdening as few people as possible with as much work as possible. our productivity is tremendous, but income doesn't reflect that.