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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by anovikov on Saturday July 31, 2021 @06:57AM (#28017010)
And luddites were right because pre-industrial level of worker compensation, in real terms, was only achieved by the early XX century.
Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by scoopertrooper on Saturday July 31, 2021 @08:04AM (#28017360)
Actually compensation for most workers went up dramatically from the outset of the industrial revolution. There just wasn't that much wealth to go around prior to industrialisation.

http://nws-sa.com/rr/Inequality/Lindert.pdf