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Originally Posted by Orruar
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I love when people use graphs use two different scales for a single axis. Makes it easier to figure out which posts I don't need to read further on.
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That's a valid complaint about the graphs--the first one is particularly misleading-- but it doesn't warrant ignoring the truth of the situation. It's oriented that way because employee compensation is naturally a much larger % of GDP... the profit axis nearly doubled itself, which wouldn't have otherwise been adequately portrayed.
Basically what you can take away is that compensation/GDP dropped roughly 10%, while corporate profits/GDP increased roughly 5%. This is a well known trend and you don't need to rely on a shitty graph to recognize it.
But none of it really matters anyway because you're a libertarian and won't be happy until the State of the Union is sponsored by Coca Cola