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Mainstream Myths about Labor Income And Profit Rates
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2:59:48Now PlayingGene Epstein — former economics editor at Barron's and founder of the Soho Forum debate series — brings 26 slides to prove that the famous "productivity-pay gap" is statistical fraud. The Bureau of Labor Statistics uses two different price deflators to make it look like workers are getting screwed — but when you compare nominal dollars to nominal dollars, the gap disappears entirely. Gene asked Google, Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Grok whether the gap is real. Only Grok got it right.
Plus: why the "non-supervisory worker" data category is so broken the BLS planned to kill it in 2009 (and never did), how corporate profit rates aren't actually at record highs when measured properly, and why the left-wing narrative about unions falls apart when you look at the 1950s.
GuestGene Epstein (@GeneSohoForum)
Upcoming Soho Forum debates: March 4 (Abolish the NIH), April (NYC Mayor Mamdani), May (Billionaire Taxes)
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