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Gross domestic income: Compensation of employees, paid: Wages and salaries/M2 | FRED | St. Louis Fed https://share.google/fAEMDQT9FWz7Ga67d

Sorry for the Ai overview, but I don’t live there so only care sooo much. And oddly from Europe I can’t access some pages without swapping my VPN to there.

Here you go:

Workers’ Share of U.S. Income Hits 43% as Nixon’s 1971 Break Gets Revisited – Idaho Public Press https://share.google/WiCCqpQFXbWjfMGch

When economic experts and financial outlets look at this metric, they pull from raw data available via the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED database):The Component: “Gross Domestic Income: Compensation of Employees, Paid: Wages and Salaries” (FRED Series A4102C1Q027SBEA).The Context: Gross Domestic Income (GDI) measures everything the economy makes by adding up all the income generated. This includes worker paychecks, corporate profits, and investment returns.The Trend: While the total amount of money in the U.S. economy keeps growing, the percentage slice that goes directly into regular workers’ wages and salaries has shrunk over the long term to roughly 43%, making it one of the lowest proportions since recording began in 1929.

A Key Economic Distinction: “Wages” vs "Total Labor Share"If you plan to use this stat in a discussion or research paper, be careful not to confuse “Wages and Salaries” with Total Labor Share.Wages and Salaries (43%): This is just the literal money printed on base paychecks.Total Labor Share (~53% to 62%): When the government calculates the total share going to workers, they include wages plus benefits like health insurance, retirement contributions, and social insurance. The New York Fed reports that the total labor share has also hit historic post-war lows, sitting closer to the low 50s.

A big nothingburger. It’s always a big nothingburger. It’s the news; they generate sensationalized headlines for clicks. If they can make someone angry, scared, defensive or passionate they get more clicks.

To be fair… It always is.

Quotes and sources within and outside of Argentina news. (if you allow me to use the internet now for proof). It just takes a quick search for pages on info on it. Feel free and try the same.

They are eating donkeys now in Argentina and marketing it as beef is getting expensive

Chubut producer Julio Cittadini’s “Burros Patagones” project began commercial sales of donkey meat in April at 7,500 pesos per kilogram, compared to approximately 18,564 pesos per kilogram for beef — roughly 40% of the bovine price.

With beef prices hitting 25,000 pesos, the legalization of donkey slaughter reveals the rawest side of the Casa Rosada’s fiscal adjustment.

Controversial: the sale of donkey meat grows as a food and economic alternative in the province of Chubut - Noticias Ambientales https://share.google/CKOi5ihXDdGxSIHNp

They are eating donkeys now in Argentina and marketing it as beef is getting expensive | Page 2 | ExpatsBA - The Best Source for All Things Buenos Aires https://share.google/h8LLOQSr3zldCIn44

Argentina Crisis: Donkey meat consumption … — Diário Carioca https://share.google/lGO5UoHG14GREBueU

https://en.clickpetroleoegas.com.br/the-price-of-beef-in-argentina-has-skyrocketed-so-much-that-the-population-has-started-eating-donkey-and-llama-meat-as-an-alternative-while-btl96/#%3A~%3Atext=What+led+Argentinians+to+adopt%2Cthird+the+price+of+beef

Chillll… Its just donkey meat and the internet. The government does in fact talk about it. They publish reports about animal meat production and consumption like every nation. It’s part of their annual reports that prove a point that I really don’t care about at all. If you want to say they only eat cow in Argentina because you know best and no one can use internet sources to prove you wrong… Fine. Great. I don’t know what to say. You won this internet battle! Yay!

Uhhhh… I have been to Argentina. I was there a long time. Can’t say I saw donkey meat. Also doesn’t mean it is not there, or eaten. All I can do it tell you what the Argentinien government has to say about it.

Unfortunately as I apparently can’t research it online… And I live in Germany… I can’t fulfill your request as it would require me to go to Argentina to satisfy some dude on reddit. Sorry dude? Don’t know what you want.

That was simply a average. But the shop does matter, being why averages help.

This is usually the case. There seems to be a nugget of truth in it, but articles always make it seem larger than life. Horse mule and donkey meat consumption is in fact up. Is it significant - no. Is it common, also no. Is it a THING? Na, no it’s not a thing. It’s simply slightly higher than it was before but still very rare.

It doesn’t make sense for it to be a common thing as there simply is not enough donkeys in the country, even if you were to slaughter them all for it is be common. Apparently there is 59k donkeys and 50,920,790 cows in Argentina. There seems to be a 7-16% increase in the slaughter of donkeys for meat although this number seems to be in question. It apparently is a third the cost of cow meat.

I’m not in the UK but in Germany. That seems low and Germans are cheap AF. I usually expect things to be more expensive there. I don’t know about Googles overview, but this is what Google has to say.

The average price of beef in the UK varies significantly by cut, with current retail prices for primary cuts typically ranging between £9.00 and £19.00 per kg. As of April 2026, retail beef prices have seen a sharp increase of approximately 16.4% year-on-year due to supply shortages

The average price of ground beef (mince) in the UK has risen significantly, with retail prices typically ranging from £6.18 to £11.00 per kg as of April 2026

Meh. I saw someone being interviewed who didn’t know who hilter was. Apparently genuine. They even gave hints. When the interviewer told her who he is, she wasn’t even shocked or just having a brain fart. She blamed it on her history teacher…