Originally Posted by crockett

It hasn't worked like that because it became more important to pay CEOS and shareholders all the corporate profits at the expense of the workers. In a quest to keep pushing constant profits for shareholders, wages were reduced and then the jobs shipped overseas so wages could be reduced even more.

This came because of failed trickle down economics.. Reagan was the first to open the doors to China and everyone since has left them open.

Corporations like trickle down because they benifit. The average worker gets fucked though and that's where the govt should be trying to protect them.