Over the last 40 years
- worker productivity has risen dramatically
- executive pay has risen dramatically
Life is on average better, but we've chosen to give most of the benefits to the people who have done the least.
my cemetery has tons of historical correspondence by employees going back almost 200 years and i like to read it and make myself insane thinking about how much more shit i am expected to do in a day than these people and how i am not even actually making that much more money than them
