Comment Re:Selfish Americans (Score 1) 537
What makes you think so? CEO's salaries have skyrocketed compared to the average salaries of the employees at a company. It was about 30X in the 60s, and is now 500X in the 00s.
If you've studied economics at all, it is well agreed upon. You must agree that no economic system can make everybody get richer, or else inflation would just rise to counteract it.
Your misconception is because you are looking at the US as a closed system. It is not; right now, the average US worker is getting richer when compared to the world, but developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Central/South America are getting poorer.
If you've studied economics at all, it is well agreed upon. You must agree that no economic system can make everybody get richer, or else inflation would just rise to counteract it.
Your misconception is because you are looking at the US as a closed system. It is not; right now, the average US worker is getting richer when compared to the world, but developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Central/South America are getting poorer.
