• WookieMunster@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Which also begs the question, if we were paid on par with inflation, would we still need to work 40 hours as most people do?

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      1 year ago

      That’s actually the issue. Productivity increase didn’t go to the employees the past couple of decades, otherwise we’d have outpaced inflation