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They’ve stolen utopia from us!
https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/
Is 1971 the timeline split?
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Yes this is part of it.
What happened is Nixon fucked up fiat and fucked us all:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system
Stop perpetuating the gold standard myth. There's as much point having a gold standard as there is any other stable finite chemical.
The problem was neoliberalism/conservatism, which systematically removed all the labor and wealth redistribution policies of the post WW2 era, at the same time as boomers AND women were entering the workforce — higher supply of workers = lower demand and wages — the EU and Japan were rebuilt and competitive, offshoring and automation was gearing up (wage suppression + higher profits for capitalism), the deregulation of financial markets and regulatory/financial capture of government that enabled extreme financial predation, etc, etc.
The gold standard change would be irrelevant if we didn't live in oligarchies masquerading as democracies — where your level of wealth is directly proportional to your level of freedom, speech, and political representation.