On January 2, 2014, The Daily Kos posts:
By the third quarter of 2013, the share of corporate-sector income accruing to profits and other forms of capital income had reached 25.8 percent, the highest share ever recorded. To put this number into perspective, if the share of corporate-sector income accruing to capital owners in the third quarter of 2013 were 20.4 percent (the 1969–2007 average), every worker in the U.S. economy would have earned $3,200 more in wages.The years from 1969 to 2007 weren’t such terrible ones for corporate America, were they? CEOs didn’t go begging in the streets, capitalism didn’t shrivel and die. It really doesn’t seem like a lot to suggest that we go back to that average.
