Some workers are paid much more than others. In the United States, many white-collar professionals make several hundred thousand dollars per year, post-tax. That is on the order of ten times what fast food workers, janitors, and home health aides make. Global labor inequality is worse. A product manager at Apple might make thirty times the pay of someone mining lithium for batteries in Zimbabwe, even after adjusting for purchasing power. If, in a fit of communism, you expropriated all of the capital income in the global economy and spread it among the bottom half of the global labor force, you would not close the gap with the top half … (more)
[Evan Behrle, LPE Project, 8 June 2026]
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