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SECTION 1 2 3<br />

WHAT CAN BE DONE<br />

In South Africa, a platinum miner would need to work for 93 years just to earn<br />

their average CEO’s annual bonus. 318 In 2014, the UK top 100 executives took <<br />

home 131 times as much as their average employee; 319 only 15 of these<br />

companies have committed to pay their employees a living wage. 320<br />

Today’s combination of indecently low wages for the majority and scandalously<br />

high rewards for top executives and shareholders is a recipe for accelerating<br />

economic inequality.<br />

Labour’s declining share of income<br />

FIGURE 9: Share of labour income in GDP for world and country groups 321<br />

70<br />

65<br />

60<br />

55<br />

50<br />

45<br />

40<br />

World<br />

G20 High Income<br />

G20 Middle and Lower-middle Income<br />

Groups not in G20<br />

Since 1990, income from labour has made up a declining share of GDP across all<br />

countries, low-, middle- and high-income alike, while more has gone to capital,<br />

fuelling growing material inequalities between the haves and the have-nots.<br />

According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), policies that<br />

redistribute income in favour of labour, such as increases in the minimum<br />

wage, would bring significant improvements in aggregate demand and growth,<br />

while also reducing poverty and inequality. 322<br />

Percentage<br />

1990<br />

1992<br />

1994<br />

1996<br />

1998<br />

2000<br />

2002<br />

2004<br />

2006<br />

2008<br />

2010<br />

2012<br />

It would take a<br />

South African miner<br />

93 years<br />

to earn their average CEO’s<br />

annual bonus<br />

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73

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