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[-] TyrionsNose@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

All true, but neither of these parent posts address the fact these efficiencies we’re not passed onto the worker but hoarded at the top

If pay would of stayed near the slope of productivity gains in the US none of this would be a problem.

Every average worker from french fry cook to teacher to nurse to engineer should be paid double what they are if everything stayed in line. Or you at least increase the top tax rate to redistribute the money back to normal folks.

But the US has done none of these which leads us on the path to the most common reason nations fall. Excessive amounts of inequality….

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