In my opinion all american workers are overpaid. If you take 99.5 percent of the people out there (there are a slim few exceptions) and compare their wages to those in other countries for the same jobs, the american worker is paid 30% to 80% more than the average. The real problem is that the US wages cannot compete with globalization. And other countries willing to exploit their workers. Yet at the same time, we worship at the alter of the lowest prices (read Walmart) in a cannibalistic way like eating our own young. Rallying individuals into unions to use collective bargaining for better wages is only making the matters worse... We are pricing ourselves out of our own jobs...
80% of the national income is composed of wages... There's not enough money at the top 1% of the wealth in the country to fix these problems.
We have to change our mindset and look to purchase things locally from the mom and pop shop/entrepreneurs...
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