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Re:Why Can’t Americans Get a Raise? by prolways on Friday July 14, 2017 @05:14PM (#14773240)
If a significant portion of the population has a market value lower than the cost for them to have a reasonable quality of life isn't that some kind of fundamental failure condition for society/humanity?
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Re:Why Can’t Americans Get a Raise? by brightball on Sunday July 16, 2017 @12:27AM (#14780475)
Or is it a function of supply and demand simply changing the rate because we've been perfectly comfortable sending millions of jobs overseas?

As soon as the supply of people needing jobs is low enough that businesses have to pay more to hire...they will do so barring alternative options.

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