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Re:Shrinking teams are pushing workers to the brink by treis on Monday February 20, 2023 @01:43PM (#34871261)
The standard of living rises with wages because we spend those wages on our standard of living. There's some segments like education and health care that are just broken vampires sucking up resources. In some places housing gets added to that list due to zoning. But for the most part people are getting better things for the same effort of working than they used to.
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Re:Shrinking teams are pushing workers to the brink by kosmos1337 on Monday February 20, 2023 @04:55PM (#34873474)
Is there really that much to standard of living after you exclude education, health care, and housing? What's left? Eating out and electronics?
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Re:Shrinking teams are pushing workers to the brink by treis on Monday February 20, 2023 @06:03PM (#34874107)
Cars, hobby stuff, furniture, appliances, and so on
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