{"id":22867,"date":"2026-08-13T15:46:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22867"},"modified":"2026-08-13T15:46:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:46:34","slug":"no-the-k-shaped-economy-isnt-over-heres-the-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22867","title":{"rendered":"No, The K-Shaped Economy Isn\u2019t Over. Here\u2019s the Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Labors&#8217; share of the national income is the lowest it has been since this has been measured.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We live in a world based on giant firms that are efficient and can do a lot of things with few workers. Needing less workers means workers have less bargaining power and therefore get paid less. Globalization also weakens bargaining power as companies can move some of the work overseas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"No, The K-Shaped Economy Isn\u2019t Over. Here\u2019s the Data\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lgcNgo6IIpM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labors&#8217; share of the national income is the lowest it has been since this has been measured. <\/p>\n<p>We live in a world based on giant firms that are efficient and can do a lot of things with few workers. Needing less workers means workers have less bargaining power and therefore get paid less. Globalization also weakens bargaining power as companies can move some of the work overseas. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lgcNgo6IIpM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1141,217,165,1200,363,1449,1139,574],"class_list":["post-22867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-compensation","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-globalization","tag-inequality","tag-labor","tag-wages","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22868,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22867\/revisions\/22868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}