Whether you’re a short order cook, a trial attorney, a plumber, Starbucks barista, car mechanic, ER nurse, high school teacher or a Hollywood producer, and whether you’re infatuated with your career & ‘in the zone’ daily, or absolutely hating life while slavin’ away at a meaningless desk job while pleading for the boss to return your red stapler, chances are that you’re working harder & longer today than you would’ve decades ago, with fewer wage gains, savings, social mobility & thus prospects for a sustainable retirement.  All of this despite the government, media and school system from K through 12 through college & grad school preaching to us that our work is our identity & very purpose for living – cultish beliefs that are meant to make many of us keep striving to achieve some ephemeral material dream, let alone somehow just get ahead, despite the rising economic odds.

The other thing:  How is it that we’re the hardest working people in history, yet still find ourselves enduring real decade-plus-long unemployment & underemployment rates comparable to those of 80 years ago?  Or that we’re told that inflation is kept under control and “targeted” while education, property, rents, insurance, medicine & health care costs contribute toward crippling the storied middle class?  I’m relying upon sober, credible statistics, by the way, not government-mandated propaganda posturing as data to further speculate with while capping entitlement payments.

Answers tend to vary in the corporate press, yet rarely do they emphasize the role of imbedded inflation discourtesy of chronic currency debasement over decades.  Yes, even the mere mention makes most either scratch their heads or get the kids out of the room, as it’s considered profane to defame the fiat dollar.  Well, in this 42^nd episode of “Money & Fear”, we’ll swim in such profanities while painting a succinct, albeit numbers-abetted, portrait of what’s at the core of the over-working rot that’s turning people from human resources into, well, red staplers.

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Show Notes

Law of Diminishing Returns

In U.S., wage growth is being wiped out entirely by inflation

Bureau of Labor Statistics - Real Earnings Summary

2018: the year of fake economic data

Uncovering Misleading Government Economic Statistics – an alternative reality

If the US unemployment rate included everyone who says they want a job, it would be nearly double

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - Wage Growth Tracker

Growth (or not) in real wages

For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades

U6 Unemployment Rate

Alternate Unemployment Charts - ShadowStats

Unemployment Rate by Year Since 1929 Compared to Inflation and GDP

Consumer Price Index

Chapwood Cost Of Living Increase Index

Generation Debt: The Student Loan & Wider College Rackets

The Inflation Chart That Explains Everything

Change in Purchasing Power of the U.S. Dollar By Decade From 1900

Report paints picture of `overworked and underpaid´ Britain

Overworked America:  The economic causes and consequences of long work hours

I Spent 15 Years Studying Why People Hate Their Jobs. This Is the Top Reason

Do You Hate Your Job? Here Are 6 Reasons Why It's Actually Not Your Fault

Workism Is Making Americans Miserable

Why Do Americans Work So Much?

The U.S. is the Most Overworked Developed Nation in the World

Overworked America: 12 Charts That Will Make Your Blood Boil

The Cult of Overwork

The Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult

The Three Faces of Work-Family Conflict

Memo to work martyrs: Long hours make you less productive

How the Culture of Overwork Is Damaging Your Productivity and Your Health

The Research Is Clear: Long Hours Backfire for People and for Companies

Why Overworking Doesn’t Work

Why are Americans spending too much time at work?

People Over 40 Shouldn't Work More Than 3 Days a Week, Study Says

Never Retire: Why People Are Still Working in Their 70s and 80s - For some, retirement is a dirty word. Others opt to "un-retire" when they realize they've made a mistake.

Americans: Overworked, Overstressed

Papers

Employment Cost Index - Historical Listing – Volume IV

Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren  (1930) – by John Maynard Keynes

Books

https://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?id=7175

https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/juliet-schor/the-overworked-american/9780465054343/

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/27862/the-working-life-by-joanne-ciulla/9780609807378/

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