Wages go up 3% a year. Assets go up 10%. That 7% gap compounds, which means the distance between people who own things and people who don't grows faster every single year. Nobody has to do anything for that to happen. It just does. 10 years from now that gap will be roughly DOUBLE what it is today, and the people on the wrong side of it will still be arguing about whose fault it is. That’s what The Assembly is for. Getting people onto the side that compounds. Members are making tens of thousands on a $199 membership. Some have taken their families on vacation with the profits. 4 months ago they were reading a post exactly like this one. They did something about it, that’s the difference, and that’s why they’re winning today. Access here:

Wages grew in step with the stock market for the first decades of the postwar boom. Since Reagan, stocks have skyrocketed while wages stayed on the same trajectory: +9,686% vs. +1,196%. That gap is a big driver of inequality — and a case for taxing capital more like work.

American wages aren't keeping pace with inflation. The last time we had a sustained period of real-wage stagnation was during the sluggish recovery from the global financial crisis, @JonathanJLevin says