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Australia: "Our society has dealt with significant advances in technology and productivity before and the lesson is that those gains must be reflected in wages, or the social contract will break" (www.ragtrader.com.au)
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[-] showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 10 points 1 month ago

Low paid workers have demands put on the scarce resource that is wages. If the wages go up, they spend that money in ways that increase productivity.

  • THIS!!

Seriously giving poor people more money does more for the economy than any tax cut.

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