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Re:Amazon Grows to over 750k Robots, Replacing 100k Humans by VHRanger on Sunday April 21, 2024 @05:55PM (#40109575)
FWIW, the wage share declining is a result of many other factors. See here:

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2008/where-has-all-th...

Health insurance and other benefits, household composition have hurt wage share. Not that it didn't decline in real terms for the lower skilled workers, just less than the naive chart you put.

Here is good reading on the topic (maybe my favorite paper of the last decade):

https://www.nber.org/papers/w25588

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Re:Amazon Grows to over 750k Robots, Replacing 100k Humans by int_19h on Monday April 22, 2024 @05:11AM (#40112610)
Your first link points out that income inequality is still growing, however. Which unambiguously means that those at the top are increasingly taking larger and larger slice of the pie.
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