Unemployment is Down – Why Aren’t Wages Up?

1. The coming AI/robotic revolution will make the entire working class obsolete.

2. Why does he quote the standard wage statistics rather than a measure of "real wage" which accounts for inflation?

3. please label these part 1/2… youtube recommendation are playing them backwards.

4. when you say "discouraged workers can't find a decent job" you could say "discouraged workers can't find a job that pays the rent"

5. As a musician , I can say that we basically are working for the same money we made in the eighties and it never did get any better . I have increased my teaching fees over the years to keep up with inflation , but after the 2008 recession there was a drop in the number of students due of course to less disposable income , and in 2012 I was eligible for the old age pension and it kept the wolf from my door . I still play periodically , and have a few students , but the golden age of live music is over , and I am lucky I had a few good decades when I was young .

6. Union leadership seems more in line with the needs of the corporations than their workers.

7. Also bosses and owners are naturally inclined not to pay more to their workers, especially as costs rise, and many workers are afraid to ask for raises.

8. Its Supply and demand lots of workers =Lower pay and we have 20 to 30 million illegal immigrants working in the USA and thats going to lower pay ..

9. Open borders/massive immigration is driving down wages.

10. because they are all crap jobs zero hour contracts or part time contracts or temporary jobs and the elites don't want to pay people decent wages to live on.

11. James 5:1-4

12. Just because you make 2 part time jobs out of one full time job doesn’t mean there is more jobs especially in a consumer based economy!

13. I gave up searching for a job so i joined the military. Not a bad gig.

14. Tax big corporations and punish them for moving money offshore to avoid taxes. Stop this corruption now.

15. Unemployment is only down because they don't count the great # who have given up. 30% of people I know have!

16. Apparently earth is a prison.

17. Wages are pinned to the prices of consumer goods.
    Productivity increases are not due to productive labor, they are due to productive machinery. Very few are building those machines.

    Labor statistics estimates that employee's spend 2-3 hours a day on their phones or doing non-work related tasks (not including breaks). There are many reasons for low wages, none of them is due to employers not paying the going rate. It has much more to do with a pool of employee's unwilling to increase their skilss and tools to be able to demand more.

18. Laws of globalism… All profits goes to the 1%. Fair and square.

19. Malignant corrupt capitalism will reduce the population of the USA to 66,000,000 by 2025. Trump is just an actor and thief, playing President. He is far too crazy and stupid to have done even a small part of the things that have been done to destroy the country. It really is all known and very clear, but the subversive propaganda makes it seem very unclear. The USA was taken over by a criminal cabal that is destroying the country. Not one thing has been done about Trump. He is not a President. He is an agent of the Plutocracy destroying the country. Trump has declared a fake national emergency, and nothing will be done about it. He has one year in which he can declare martial law any day. The Congress and the courts could stop him, but they won't because they are all enmeshed! Trump has taken over the country, dictator for life, and no one will do anything about it.

20. There are a billion ways to cook the books when coming up with the "Unemployment percentage".

21. Because there is no invisible hand. The tendency is that they will pay as few as they can.

22. He doesn't mention real estate when posed with the question of low wage. People are too indoctrinated to even understand the most basic concepts of economics. I wish TRNN would invite a Georgist.

23. Free trade agreements destroyed unions and the middle class and created the Rustbelt. Obama bush trump destroyed the middle class and unions. Throw in the stupid apathetic American. Wa la. America the hellhole.

24. It's been a good 10-20 years since Mainstreet had any sort of real and substantial pay increase. But read any of the big three financial news periodically Wall Street Journal and New York Times, etc and they're trumpeting the opposite narrative actually.

25. That number got be a lie.

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