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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (246680)8/20/2005 1:32:27 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1571477
 
"The pay scale used to be much flatter."

Which, apparently, was the result of what is called "The Great Compression" that occurred during the 1940s. With the rise of American manufacturing that started in the mid-1800's, wage disparity started to rise. The rise of the labor movement, the Great Depression, World War II and the economic controls that were put into place and the demand for unskilled labor in the wake of WWII changed all that. But, apparently, there are those who missed the social dislocation, petty crime and general lack of security for most people of those days prior to WWII. After all, it is awful if most people aren't scrabbling for what little they can get.
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