not so golden arches

[Danzig]

risk...a question i asked elsewhere that i'll put to you-and whoever else wants to answer that i can actually see their response...

how come it used to be you held a job in the u.s., you could survive. now, that's no longer the case. we've had these 'lower rung' jobs for decades, it used to be enough. now, it's not--and somehow that's the workers fault?
what has changed that what once meant being above poverty no longer does--and how did we decide that it's the employees fault, rather than the employers?
i would LOVE to know how that sea change occurred.

i already know the answer, it really is a rhetorical question.
the amount of payroll is the same, but more now goes the very top.
we have more than ever before graduating from college-the best educated populace in the history of the u.s. but wages are stagnant, or worse.
we have made change after change to our tax policies, to supposedly get the job creators to make more jobs...yet, that doesn't happen.

my son came home and said 'but, if walmart paid more, they'd sell more'. nope.
like i told him, it used to be the employer paid a living wage, and reaped the benefits by selling to their workers. but now, we, the taxpayer make up the difference between the **** wage those companies pay and what it takes to survive.
so, if walmart and the rest boosted their pay, it would take their employees off the dole...but wouldn't mean one more red cent to those businesses, because the peoples' overall income would remain the same.
and the banks and stores like walmart sure make money off those ebt cards, don't they?
the banks and corporations pay for the regulations, or lack thereof...and they pay to keep the min. wage from going up, and they laugh all the way to the vault.

and then when i bring up the bizarro world--i'm crazy? only in 'murica