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| Sadly, this is getting closer and closer to being a fact |
From the No Shit Sherlock Files: A study from the Government Accountability Office shows that richer Americans are living longer than poorer Americans, and that while mortality rates in America are slowly sliding down, they are sliding down even faster for America's poorest 20%.
In a related study, the Economic Policy Institute notes that CEO compensation has risen 52.6% since 2009 (over 1007% since 1978) while the average worker has seen his pay rise by 5.2%, and it has actually fallen .2% the last two years. Even worse, the study shows that this increase in pay has nothing to do with the talent of the CEO, and more to do with their ability to set their own pay (if only the rest of us had such a tilted field in our quest for a raise).
I know I'm beating a dead horse here, but really, folks, this kind of imparity in our economic lives is just not sustainable. Eventually poor folks are going to have had enough, and when they do, they are going to move mountains...right on top of their overlords.
Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee
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