Quote Originally Posted by Richard View Post
It seems like the best years were 1945 to late 1960s before that was rough and lots of rough patches after that.

Now is kinda like the depression,there is always somebody a little bit hungrier and willing to work for a little bit less which will stay the same until the demand for labor increases.
There are three factors contributing to that:

1. The consumer driven post-war boom which lasted till the late sixties where people caught up to the inability to buy goods during the depression for lack of money and during the war for lack of supply [[diversion of production to the war effort).

2. During the late forties and the fifties, only the "depression babies" were entering the workforce [[and there weren't that many of us). Beginning in the sixties, the "baby boomers" flooded the job market.

3. Beginning in 1920 or so there was a massive and draconian crackdown on immigration. This eased in the sixties [[and became a flood in the eighties) which further flooded the job market.


Workers are "a dime a dozen" and there is no upward pressure on wages.