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Re:If pay had kept pace with productivity gains, minimum wag... by qq12as on Friday October 09, 2020 @04:35PM (#24734156)
No bad assumption here: people say that productivity growth and wage growth ought be the same. If this was not the case, then in the long run 100% of value added would go to capital! Of course this does not mean that the productivity gains should directly translate into wages.
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