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Re:Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people t... by IQunder130 on Monday May 31, 2021 @09:44AM (#27343983)
A race to the bottom is the natural order of things in a market economy. Society at large benefits from it because the prices of goods and services go down, and less of your money goes towards subsidizing somebody's inflated lifestyle.
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Re:Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people t... by FredPret on Monday May 31, 2021 @09:57AM (#27344132)
Very true. But in this case, SWEs and financiers achieve lower unit cost not through lower salaries, but scaling their value-add to more people
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