• theparadox@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I would also be surprised if the cost of production, now using cheaper ingredients and far more automation, hadn’t also decreased.

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      4 hours ago

      Oh absolutely. Productivity has increased drastically since the 90s but wages never kept up.

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        3 hours ago

        Don’t say it in cop voice. Say:

        workers engineers and scientists made everything drastically more productive and the pedophiles stole all the gains. We keep letting them.

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          We’re saying the same thing. The productivity surplus is getting stolen by the Epstein class. I’m not trying to sugarcoat anything.

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            3 hours ago

            I know. You were trained to say it in a way that contains linguistic ‘outs’ for boot lickers and disattributes the harm. Read back my post and look at the formatting.