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f0bbcb15-cbac-43f7-99ad-ff2e8ed37101 - powered by Happy Scribe I'm enough of a nerd to enjoy digging dad out of the Zuckerman's IRS database, and when I do, I see two very different chapters in American history from 1945 to 1980, when I see a chapter of prosperity capitalism where incomes rose for the entire workforce. And from 1981 forward, I see a chapter I would call enrichment capitalism. Yeah, I wonder if that contrast between prosperity capitalism up to Reagan and enrichment capitalism from Reagan forward has caught other people's attention too. Oh yeah. People like me have been talking about that for four decades, literally. I had a 1992 article about that transition. If you look at it as a as a as a bar graph, the the first post-war generation is this picket fence and the second generation is a step ladder with for the first step of it being below ground in terms of rates of change of income. So, no, there's a there's a total transition. Everything chan