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Comment by lm28469

2 days ago

None of the productivity increase of the last 50 years have benefited the workers, there is absolutely no reason for that to change

Is everyone on this website 20 years old? They pulled the same shit with automation, with computers, with internet, with cryptos, and now with ai,... And people keep falling for the same bs over and over again. "the three day workweek", "we'll retire at 45", &c.

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

That's not strictly true. Lots of things got cheaper because of productivity increases - food, clothing, consumer goods to name a few. Housing, medical care, and education went in exactly the opposite direction.