THE QUESTION
Why is a secure standard of living harder to reach than a generation ago?
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CLUSTER 1
Anyone without them was priced out of ever holding them
10 votesdiscuss
Anyone holding assets in 2009 has done well without deciding anything
I mean this as an observation; I would want it tested.
5 votesdiscuss
CLUSTER 2
Inheritance now decides more outcomes than income does
0 votesdiscuss
The tax system taxes the wage more than the asset
Narrower than it reads — the wider claim is someone else's card.
0 votesdiscuss
CLUSTER 3
What used to be a job is now a series of contracts
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The things that used to be bought once are now rented forever
14 votesdiscuss
NOT CLUSTERED
The statistics say the median is fine and the median household disagrees
4 votesdiscuss
A household absorbs shocks that used to be absorbed by an institution
Meaning the general pattern, not one case.
4 votesdiscuss
Productivity rose and pay stopped following it
Not an accusation: an institution can do this with everyone acting in good faith.
3 votesdiscuss
Union membership fell and with it the wage floor for everyone
0 votesdiscuss
The measured rate of inflation is not the rate a young family faces
13 votesdiscuss
Public services filled part of the gap and were then cut
Not an accusation: an institution can do this with everyone acting in good faith.
0 votesdiscuss
Bargaining power moved from labour to capital gradually and completely
3 votesdiscuss
A single wage no longer supports a household
10 votesdiscuss
Competition policy stopped worrying about labour markets
0 votesdiscuss
Credentials inflated because everyone responded to the same signal
Not an accusation: an institution can do this with everyone acting in good faith.
0 votesdiscuss
Assets rose faster than wages for four decades
Narrower than it reads — the wider claim is someone else's card.
9 votesdiscuss
Two incomes became necessary and childcare ate the second
I mean this as an observation; I would want it tested.
0 votesdiscuss
The cost of the essentials rose faster than the basket used to measure inflation
3 votesdiscuss
Three employers in a town is not a market for workers
To be precise: this is about the mechanism, not anyone's motives.
6 votesdiscuss
Everything that got cheaper is optional and everything essential got dearer
0 votesdiscuss
Everything the state stopped doing became a household expense
0 votesdiscuss
A firm can move production and a worker cannot move country
Meaning the general pattern, not one case.
0 votesdiscuss
Cheap credit substituted for wages for twenty years
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Debt made the fall invisible until it was not
Not an accusation: an institution can do this with everyone acting in good faith.
11 votesdiscuss
Nobody has ever added up what was transferred to households
1 votesdiscuss
Housing, childcare and health are counted like televisions
4 votesdiscuss
Degrees became the entry ticket and the debt came with them
2 votesdiscuss
Training is an employer cost, so nobody trains anyone
Scope: the last two decades, not all history.
4 votesdiscuss
Interest rates were held low for a decade and asset prices did what follows
Scope: the last two decades, not all history.
0 votesdiscuss
Non-compete clauses reach people who earn very little
Narrower than it reads — the wider claim is someone else's card.
1 votes
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discussClassification as self-employed removes protections without removing dependence
5 votesdiscuss
The share of output going to wages fell and nobody decided it
Narrower than it reads — the wider claim is someone else's card.
8 votesdiscuss
Risk was transferred to households and called flexibility
Not an accusation: an institution can do this with everyone acting in good faith.
13 votesdiscuss
Employment law was written for a job that no longer exists
To be precise: this is about the mechanism, not anyone's motives.
0 votesdiscuss
Pensions moved from a promise by an employer to a bet by an employee
Narrower than it reads — the wider claim is someone else's card.
1 votesdiscuss
A skill has a shorter life than a career
7 votesdiscuss