Explore the hidden legal shift that broke the American dream. For decades, productivity and wages moved together, ensuring that hard work resulted in higher pay. In 1970, the shareholder primacy doctrine legally decoupled these two forces, transforming workers from assets into costs to be minimized. This investigative look reveals how Milton Friedman’s theory redirected trillions of dollars from your paycheck into stock buybacks and executive bonuses. The system is working exactly as designed, prioritizing ticker symbols over the people who create the actual value. Understand the legal mechanism that keeps your wages flat while corporate profits soar to record heights. It is time to see the invisible rules of the game.
