At the beginning of integrative (stable) periods in societies, the fruits of economic growth are divided fairly between workers and elites; in the United States this held true from the New Deal until the 1970s, when median wages and GDP per capita grew together with worker productivity.
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Peter TurchinEvidence Quote
“in the United States from the new deal until 1970s if you were to plot the median the typical wage and the GDP per capita they would grow together until late 1970s you may have seen this famous graph of uh of prod American worker productivity which keeps going up and the compensation which goes up together with productivity until 1970s and then just stops growing”
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