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Re:Decline in the labor share of income in the U.S. by EGreg on Friday October 23, 2015 @09:37AM (#10438424)
Global wages have increased, US wages have fallen in mean reversion t to the global average.

Immigration makes workers participate in paying for your society's taxes and paying for its social expenditures. Outsourcing is a vote against your own standard of living. But it helps more people than it hurts, if you ignore national interests!

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Re:Decline in the labor share of income in the U.S. by yummyfajitas on Friday October 23, 2015 @09:46AM (#10438472)
US wages have remained flat only because employers have increased non-wage benefits rather than wages. Worker compensation has done nothing but go up.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/ECICOM

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/RCPHBS

In short, everyone has become richer.

Also, outsourcing increases your own standard of living. Foreigners work while locals consume. What next, hiring a maid reduces my standard of living?

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