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Re:If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power by pjc50 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @08:17AM (#17246368)
Exactly. The west has experienced "Baumol cost disease", where things that can be outsourced or automated have got a lot cheaper and things that can't have got a lot more expensive.

See https://medium.com/@6pranavk/insight-of-the-day-cost-disease... especially the graph.

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