What sucks is that in the US and Canada workers have been more productive, and generated more wealth than ever before. It has been steadily increasing for 40 years. The problem is the redistribution of wealth to the top instead of raising wages to parallel the increased profits of the large industries. Also cutting taxes for the very wealthy, plus bought off politicians creating loopholes and ways to store wealth off-shore, resulting in no money for infrastructure or quality of life spending on education and health. People work longer for less. The minimum wage should probably be more like $25 an hour based on the cost of living now, and the increase in production and profits. And on top of that free healthcare and college. But all that new wealth generated goes here:
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