Preliminary Figures: Are Corporations Profiting from Bad Relations among the Sexes?

I found a web-site, where I can obtain the total retails sales month-by-month, for each and every year. I am obtaining data from 1967 to 2006.

The reason I am not going up to 2007 or 2008, is because of the economic hanky-panky that occurred around there (that would taint the graph - I decided to look anly at the GOOD economic times).

So far, from 1967 to 2006, there has been roughly a 40% increase in retail sales.

Here are some numbers:

Retail Sales	Population
1967	179,323,175
25.3 billion in Jan	...
2006	300,009,716
365.4 billion in Jan	...

A simpleton would take 365.4 and divide by 25.3 and say,
"Gee! Retail sales have increased by a factor of 14!!!"

This would be wrong for at least two reasons. The first is the increase in population - which is shown in the table above. The second is inflation.

Here is a web-site I found, where you can calculate how much money from 1967 was worth in 2006. Use that calculator, and you'll see that 100$ in 1967 was worth just under 600$ in 2006.

So, in order to get a more accurate estimate, we must take into account the population increase (more people means more retail sales - if anything, feminism and the bad attitudes in women mean a less of a population increase, not more of a population increase - you cannot blame population increase on feminism)

180,000,000 / 300,000,000 = 0.6

so, 365.4 * 0.6 = 219.4

Then, we must take into account inflation:

219.4 * ($100/$600) = 36.54

so in 1967, retail was 25.3 billion in January.
in 2006 it is the equivalent of 36.5 billion...

That's roughly a 40% increase in roughly 40 years...

I would also like to point out that there are some other pluses and minuses that are not taken into account here (and the minuses outweigh the pluses manyfold).

- The amount corporations must pay in maternity leave.
- The amount corporations must pay in sexual harassment lawsuits.
- The amount corporations must pay for wage-discrimination.
+ Manufacturing costs are more efficient.
- The higher wages they must pay their employees due to inflation.
- The increased wealth taxed away at the inflated numbers (tax rates were not indexed for inflation).
- Higher medical insurance cost for female employees (some medical insurance programs cover abortions and breast implants)

Given the fact that there are so many more "toys" to buy these days than in 1967 (iPods, iPhones, Blackberries, Computers, Computer Accessories, Video Games, Video Game Systems etc...), you'd think that retail sales would have experienced much more growth than 1% per year!!!!

So, to all those people who tell me that retailers are profiting from bad relations among the sexes:

Please stop speaking out of ignorance - or, please stop spoon feeding me bullshit - or...

Please stop covering up for the people who really ARE profiting from this (and I believe I have found the institution(s) that are in fact profiting the most - oddly enough, it is the same people who are the primary source of the poor gender relations in the first place...

I am going to make this a YouTube rant eventually... stay tuned...

(Like anybody cares)

Historically, it has always been really easy to blame everything bad on "big evil corporations" - Global Warming, Corruption in Politics, etc...

I am seriously starting to think that "big evil corporations" are NOT profiting at all from bad gender relations - in fact, I'd suspect that they are losing money (either because of the burden of hiring a "feminist-ized" woman, or by being extorted by feminists (think sex-trafficking and the super-bowl))...

Anyway - stay tuned...

IF I AM MISSING ANYTHING, OR FAILING TO FACTOR ANYTHING IN, PLEASE TELL ME!!

Any and all input is appreciated!