If wages had risen as fast as profits over the past fifty years, almost everyone would retire at sixty two in financial comfort.

But we didn't make that the law. We don't protect labor or ourselves using our democracy.
So be it. Shorter lives.

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Firestarter · 31-35, F

I want to retire at 40.

Roundandroundwego · 61-69

@Firestarter I like rice. No politics, no sympathy. La la la can't do squat!

beckyromero · 36-40, F

If just the minimum wage had kept up to inflation as what it was when Nixon became president, overall wages would have risen as well.

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Roundandroundwego · 61-69

@beckyromero you changed the subject. Fine. Whatever.

beckyromero · 36-40, F

@Roundandroundwego

I don't see much of a disagreement. You read a lot of my post so you should know that...

I'm for raising the top tax rate AND the corporate tax rate ... in addition to raising both the poverty level AND the minimum wage.

beckyromero · 36-40, F

@hippyjoe1955

Canadian provincial minimum wages are higher than those in the U.S. - even AFTER adjusting for the exchange rate.

Same, too, for your equivalent of the poverty line.

And you have a safety net for health care.

JSul3 · 70-79

Thinning the herd.

Reason10 · 70-79, M

Wages versus profits? Once again you show a less than elementary school understanding of economics and the real world.

Over the past 50 years? The only thing that has gone up is the DOLLAR SUPPLY, which means the dollar is worth LESS than it was 50 years ago. INFLATION is the reason why stuff costs more. Profits are up but those profits aren't worth what they were 50 years ago.

And it was the DEMOCRATS (and one liberal Republican President Nixon) who saddled us with the inflation virus.

Something else you probably haven't thought of. (There are huge libraries of stuff you haven't thought about, because you're not much of a thinker.)

The life span of humans is a lot higher than it was 50 years ago. Social Security originally had a retirement age of 65, and back in 1935 life expectancy for men was 58.

Retire at Sixty Two? What if I liked my work so much that I decide never to retire? Does that mean I should feel guilty when so many others who hate their jobs have retired?

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Roundandroundwego · 61-69

@Reason10 I seek peace on Earth. The population you are letting and making die in the USA will be a huge force against peace. It's a sophisticated product, not a country or a people, that's never ever going to want peace. Or socialism. It's only ever going to be sick with inequality and injustice. Good thing no nukes are necessary. It's going away naturally and safely.
Stick to your "argument" - it's all about me! We know you're watching me for the last few days! Ewwwwe! But, you personalize and mind me! Wow.

Reason10 · 70-79, M

@Roundandroundwego The population you are letting and making die in the USA will be a huge force against peace.

Who am I letting die? Who am I KILLING?

I support Republican politicians, who bring peace to the world and lower violent crime. Trump is the most PEACEFUL president in history.

The US has been the ONLY world force FOR peace. US Taxpayers have shelled out TRILLIONS and American soldiers have shed OCEANS of blood on foreign soil to save the lives of others. In the last Century, America has saved the continent of Europe from total slavery and mass murder.

Roundandroundwego · 61-69

@Reason10 you personally can't let half A million Americans die from poverty. That's what you do as a nation. And obviously, you cannot change a thing! Or know it's even happening. But that's just the tip of the dying ice Berg. Whatever. No reason to care, nothing nothing nothing anyone can do. Nothing.

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