It has been getting worse for decades, not years, and nobody covers it because the corporations who own the media are in on the grift.

Capitalism in the US is effectively a cult.

Be like the Brits, at least we refuse to be more productive.

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The question is where is the difference going to.

I wish these kind of graphs and analysis digged deeper into the distribution of the profits, instead of showing a generic “productivity” that’s typically just a measure of GDP (which is the overall value of products, affected by wages in production but also by taxes, benefits / welfare arrangements, intermediaries, etc)… it’s also affected by imports/exports… (GDP = C + I + G + ((X − M)) ; where X and M are exports and imports respectively).

Another thing these graphs usually don’t include is neither the value in stocks nor the wages of the highest earners (typically when they show “wages” they exclude the top 20%), nor the bonuses and benefits they might receive (both for top earners and for workers)… so we don’t see exactly where the profits are going, how much it actually affects the inequality (and btw, they should show the profits as well… which imho is more directly relevant than the GDP)… the graph is a simplification that makes it very hard to see what’s happening and what needs fixing.

My guess is that the reason this is not done is because the data is not as clear… records of GDP value and (taxed) wages are relatively easy to collect data, it’s more transparent. The problem here is the lack of transparency… I actually believe that this is the biggest issue in society in general… if things were truly transparent it would make things so much easier. Easier to denounce injustice and easier to smack exactly where you need to. They insist in installing surveillance and vigilance systems, but they put them in the wrong places, it’s money/value exchanges what should be more transparent, not private conversations.