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I mean wages aren't rising, and really haven't in like 3 or 4 decades tbh...
That's......a problem, that is just going relatively unnoticed by the masses due to technological advances and QOL improvements
Even moreso when you consider our excellent GDP per capita, which essentially means one thing. The elites are taking the revenues.....
They, however, almost exclusively fund campaigns, so i'm not seeing how this is realistically going to change w/ government intervention which it does not appear anyone but the ultra Far Left is attempting to do
See, this is where the campaign funding rhetoric is harmful.
I'd also note that it's not literally true that wages haven't been rising, but it is true that a disproportionate share of GDP gains have gone to the rich, and the primary reason for that (by far) is a growing share of the economy going to capital owners, as opposed to labor. So the solution should be focused on capital (rather than, say, higher MWs or increased progressivity in income taxes, though there are other reasons for both of those things). So something like Warren's proposal (don't know enough to comment on the specific proposal she's made) is probably a good idea. Though I think a truly ideal solution would be a combination of an SWF and a land-value tax.