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[Mark Kohut]

Inequality for all.

Inequality for All - full movie - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjYlr5G22IY>
▶ 1:14:49 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjYlr5G22IY>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjYlr5G22IY
Nov 26, 2016 - Uploaded by Bernarda Sipriano
Inequality for All - full movie ... who put the smurf filter on his voice,
y'all wrong for this one ... A must-see movie ...

On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> What's the movie called? Robert Reich
>
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>
> On Aug 25, 2017, at 7:55 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In Robert Reich's first movie, he had a few charts. One was of
> the growth of GDP in America since WW2...
> charted with the growth of
> median income in Americas since WW2.......
> And a chart of union membership in America over that time.
>
> I was in about 1977 that the growth of GDP slowly but noticeably started
> to outpace the growth of median income, which flattened over time.
>
> It was at about that time that the fast decline of union membership
> started. (If I remember it was leaking away even earlier in the decade.)
> Reich pointed out how non-union wage growth also slowed. Union monetary
> achievements helped all workers.
>
> I am working with a retired economist--one who was part of the leadership
> in founding
> the radical economists group of the 60s, early 70s. I am bringing his best
> book, The Money Mandarins
> back into print with him, revised, updated, but the bulk of the analysis
> is the same since real predictive insight can be like that.
> He basically predicted all of the adverse effects of globalization on
> workers.
>
> When I told him the above examples from Reich's film, he told me this,
> still baffled and self-surprised at it.He said that around that time, in
> his prime, he poured through scads of data--to see economic
> trends, anomalies, truths....this was worldwide but he was working in
> Europe, unlike many American economists
> so.......
>
> This became unexplainably evident to him.....slowed growth and even a
> visible decline in economic value of wages WORLDWIDE (even as many of the
> most poor in major countries--China, India, for example---forged forward,
> as has steadily happened)
> which, according to classical head-in-ass econ theory, will always balance
> with new "creatively destructive" growth of
> new occupations...
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 7:36 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There’s also the fact that many traditional jobs are no longer very
>> well paid. The 1980s recession, timed with the beginning of the Reagan
>> years, was the beginning of a progressive destruction of unions in an
>> industry which had at a time been the centre of the most militant
>> labor struggles in the history of the American west. In 1978, a
>> forestry worker with no high-school diploma could earn up to 40% more
>> than the state’s average wage. Now, fellers can earn as little as $18
>> an hour.
>>
>> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/23/logging-indu
>> stry-work-employment-oregon
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>
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