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Re:The U.S. government’s failed 1890s attempt to forge unity... by mullingitover on Friday June 11, 2021 @03:19PM (#27477376)
It's relative to who you consider as 'we.' If you mean workers in the US, yeah it's pretty flat. However if you mean 'we' to be workers globally, we've gained a staggering amount in the past few decades. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.5 billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty in our lifetimes[1].

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty

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Re:The U.S. government’s failed 1890s attempt to forge unity... by reedjosh on Friday June 11, 2021 @03:28PM (#27477455)
Yes, but I'm thinking more of the we that are the losers in in the Gini coefficient.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient

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