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Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0
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A columnist recounts years of comparing American and Danish life, prompted by a conservative magazine essay contrasting Denmark's free healthcare, education, and daycare against America's higher-nominal-but-thinner-net arrangement, noting Danish tax wedges run only six points higher than American ones. He then cites a U.S. Labor Department release showing labor's share of nonfarm business output fell to 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level recorded in the measure's 80-year history.
The piece frames this as evidence that American workers are increasingly cut out of the wealth their labor generates, even as the columnist notes the Labor Department's recent reports have taken on a notably rosier tone under the current administration.
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It's a strange kind of good news release that buries its own worst number in a report otherwise built to flatter. A record-low labor share isn't a talking point you spin, it's a number that just sits there being what it is. The columnist's café nostalgia is beside the point; the government's own arithmetic is doing the arguing for him.
