> Real wages have been flat for median workers since the 70s Real wages for workers in what context? The US? The industrialized nations? Perhaps the better exp

> Real wages have been flat for median workers since the 70s Real wages for workers in what context? The US? The industrialized nations? Perhaps the better explanation for this (assuming it’s true) is that the median worker in industrialized nations has had productivity that has grown at a slower rate than the median worker in developing markets. Would be interesting to see what the worldwide statistics are for CEO to worker pay. > They do that specifically by depressing the wages of their employees to make room for dividends. Can’t “workers” also be shareholders? If not in their own companies, then at least in any publicly traded company. The world isn’t cleanly divided into “worker” and “owner”. People can be both. And again, those dividends have to go somewhere. My original post applies here, where it either gets hoarded or invested, and no matter which one happens, it is beneficial to the consumer at large. I’d consider “trickle down” to be quite the misnomer. I think “trickle up” is more apt because in the end, all it means is that the people who make the money in the first place, get to decide what they do with it as opposed to being taxed and sending their money off to a centralized (often divided and inefficient) govt to decided what to do with it.