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that small upward spike there in 2021-22 is like half of what drove the billionaire class completely nuts

Mike Konczal@mtkonczal.bsky.social

BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."

ryan cooper

@ryanlcooper.com

and the subsequent collapse in 2025-26 was a principal goal of spending billions to elect Trump. as Carlin said they want more for themselves and less for everybody else

3/9/26, 2:34 pm29 reposts332 likes

Eddy Conroy

@econroy.bsky.social

3 Sept

The very idea that the proles might get back to the heady days of the early 2000s. What a horror. There really seems to be something fundamentally broken in people who aspire to hoard so much wealth.

NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo

@originalist.bsky.social

3 Sept

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mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

Revenge for MeToo (which severely constrained their ability to rape employees), Revenge for Black Lives Matter (which called out how racist many of them were) and most of all Revenge for the 2021 Labor Market where they suddenly had to compete for scarce labor instead of the other way around

Godspeed You! Woke Moralists

@dashwallkick.bsky.social

3 Sept

you think to yourself, it can't just be that. It can't actually be "we want what's worst for everyone but ourselves," then you look at the way they actually talk about power and wealth and the supreme court and presidency and no they actually believe it is their God given right to control all.