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by throwaway201103 2039 days ago
You can be both a wage earner and a capital owner. 401K or just a standard discount brokerage account are easy paths to that. I don't know why this is always presented as two sides with no overlap.
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The point is you can say goodbye to the S&P500 performance if unions become as popular as in the post-FDR era. You'll experience low to negative real performance for decades.

Find old Warren Buffett shareholder letters or opinion pieces from those times if you want a capitalist's point of view, the guy has been around forever and has seen this particular story play out. Also, he's still for greater wealth redistribution, but that's just his personal political opinion.