Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
Jeez those graph labels are a mouthful. I'm sure I'm going to be missing some of the finer points but essentially blue line = % of total country's income that is paid out as wages to people, red line is % of total country's income that is profit to companies. Isn't the profit either going to be reinvested or get skimmed by some head honcho anyway (which would put it in the other category?) or is the point to show the difference between the sum total of population and the 0.1%ers that own big companies
It's unlikely that businesses want to re-invest their profits if the returns on interest bearing alternatives to money [ bonds, derivatives and so on] is greater ?

The graph shouldn't be read into too deeply all it is showing is that the capitalist share of income is growing faster than the workers share of income.