Hey they were close! We make 30-40k in (2024 Dollars)
That was for nonworking families.
The sheer amount of jobs that post that range as the expected salary is insanely depressing and disgusting…
I don’t think people truly understand just how much of our economy operates with those pay scales. I’m uneducated so I don’t have a specific industry to get tunnel vision with, I see a broad range of jobs and holy shit it is gross what is being “offered.”
On a side note, my friend in computer science just mentioned a coworker who makes over 150k is quitting because he has too much down time at work. Just kill me already, I’ve had enough torture…
Not incorrect, Jeff Bezos is working fewer than 4 days a week and fewer than 8 hours on a workday.
Billionaires and bastard corporations: Yoink
Greed? No no, these are just our record profits! Invest. Now.
If only this picture had the next paragraph…
“There are some who gloomily expect a society run by a small elected elite, presiding over a mindless multitude kept happy by drugs and circuses, much as in Huxley’s Brave New World. But most futurists believe that work will still be the only way to gain responsibility and power.”
To be fair, these were good predictions. All of this is actually possible. It’s just capitalism being the problem it usually is…
We choose to do this. We could just as easily choose something else.
Well know. Unless you are one of about ~20,000 people in the US that are in the 1% of wealth, you don’t get to choose anything.
Interesting predictions from the 60s.
It turns out that in the early 70s, “we” decided to give everything to corporations and those already wealthy instead. Productivity did indeed continue to skyrocket, but wages have stagnated since then. For 50+ years we’ve been getting robbed.
Well, in Germany we have legal Holdiays at least…
And on average the 39,5 hours work week and 25-30 vacation days per year. Also unlimited payed sick days.
Not unlimited. 6 months would raise eyebrows.
Sure, theoretically normal sickdays are capped to six weeks, but you do not have to collect your sick days in a sick day account like the Americans. You get a doctor’s notice and then have an official sickday. After the six weeks you can still get Krankengeld which is paid by the statutory health insurance.
I would encourage almost any American to get a remote job (or three) and move abroad to a country that has a visa for remote workers and good healthcare. It might be the only way some workers will be able to save and retire some day.
damn this sounds like a lovely world where republicans ceased to exist since 1967
By the year 2040, you’ll eat bugs on your way into your 16 hour job making 13 Bezos bucks an hour and you’ll love it because the serotonin patches and nightly dream implants (implant so that you dot wake up while your frontal cortex is being used to mine doge coin).
I hope you don’t mind, I just went to your profile and clicked “favorite”
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The best part is, for every 10 commercials you watch in your sleep, you get up to 1 dream back free at the end of the month!
The “up to” makes this particularly depressing. And realistic.
Well, naturally they have to deduct for uninsurable dream content like trees and sunshine. That kind of dangerous content needs to be distilled before it reaches you by choosing a secure dream provider. We’re trying to protect children here.
The naivete is hilarious.
The late 60’s is when George Welch became the head of the GE plastics division, in 71’ he also became the head of the GE metallurgy division. Throughout the 60 he developed and popularized “rank and yank”, basically firing 10% of your lowest performing employees on a regular basis.
The idea of corporate having loyalty to their consumers and workers died at the hands of George Welch. The obsession with quarterly profits, paper profits, and maximizing short term gains are all basically the invention of this one little man.
He was made a titan of industry for parting out one of the most iconic and profitable businesses in US history. Pretty much every CEO has walked in his image since, despite the fact that he ran He into the ground.
Is the takeaway from that site unpegging the USD from gold caused the current wage crisis?
Pretty much its about the federal reserve, unpegging from gold just let them go hog wild. Inflation is the best tool they have because it is taxation that the poor and middle class dont tend to notice.
Man it’s amazing how they didn’t understand capitalism at all. Of course I don’t think many people do now that I think about it.
Hell, i didn’t realize the scope of capitalism’s destruction until recently and i thought i had been paying attention. I probably still have more to learn but reading that stuff makes my eyes shake if i read too much at one time
“HAHAHA…no”
– Capitalists
Here’s the thing. We could have that right now, today, we’re there, they’re right. Computers and just useful software (fuck AI) alone have increased productivity so much that one guy with fancy Excel can do the work of what used to take 98 people (7 banks x 14 person abacus teams). And that’s just one regional bank. Before email, corporations had internal mailing departments, now there’s dirt cheap and super convenient email. There are untold numbers of shell scripts out there quietly replacing whole ass departments of people. Soft automation alone, no robots needed, has increased human productivity to an absolutely bonkers degree since these statements were written. Thanks to the Friedman doctrine and Reagan and Thatcher and their ilk, all the benefits of that productivity got turned into a benefits for the asset holding class, while the middle and lower classes got lectures on the morality of hard work.
People used to physically carry boxes of paper checks out to planes to be shipped between banks.
Flawless .
People talk about the age of abundance - we’ve been living it for decades. Money is created out thin air, automation and industrial have done the rest.
Marx called it 100 years ago. Thomas Piketty nailed it down a few years ago : Surplus goes to assets owners - the more assets you own, the more surplus you accumulate and it’s effective are compound over the time. Until you have a handful of people people who own all the asset, which is where we are now.
