“That red line is corporate profits since 1970. The blue line is labor’s share of income. As you can see, corporate profits are skyrocketing while labor’s share of those profits is falling. This is a big part of the reason that median wages are stagnating even as the economy grows and the wealthy become ever more fabulously rich."
John Oliver’s segment about this was fantastic.
Every single politician using social media needs to see The Daily Show’s guide to using Twitter.
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This was magical.
If you ever needed a reason to follow @TheDailyShow, this is it.
Here’s the original segment, in case you missed it.
lol what a giant fuckface von baby
new life plan:
1. turn into a boy
2. avoid accomplishing anything
3. never grow old
that’s logic, right?
lol peter pan
Glenn Beck: Anything that I said in jokes, no. Ask Jon Stewart. Ask The Simpsons.
Jon Stewart: I think Glenn Beck thinks I’m a cartoon character. Glenn, here’s the thing, my man! You don’t have to tell Meredith Viera to ask me. Ask me yourself. Once again, my brother, you, my friend, and I… Hold on.
…I thought we were changing that title. It’s just. But my message is the same. Glenn Beck, I would like you to be on our show, by which I mean appear on our show, so you can get some things off your chest. You can, uh –
No, no! That’s not what I want to. I’d like to… just lose the lower third. I’ll sweeten the deal, brother man. I’ve got a present for you. I know you love the teachin’.
It’s one of them five-pronged colored chalk things. You could use it on your board to do all the stuff you do. Imagine, you could get five people connected to George Soros. Tell me if you’ll come on because I do have to give this back to my daughter.
Uh, but seriously! I’ll ask you some questions, we’ll get to know each other on my new segment –
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