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Comment by Seattle3503

9 hours ago

> What do you think is going to happen to your bargaining power as an employee when your employer has an infinite workforce to draw from?

To assumption that there is a finite amount of work in the economy is called "lump of labour fallacy" in economics. It's not useful to ask "What if X were infinite and we held everything else constant?"

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