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Re:Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun? by ikrenji on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @07:38PM (#43488788)
degradation of society is caused primarily by rising wealth inequality, not knowledge work you donut
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Re:Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun? by deadbabe on Thursday March 27, 2025 @08:31AM (#43492901)
Knowledge work disproportionately accumulates wealth.
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Re:Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun? by ForHackernews on Thursday March 27, 2025 @12:54PM (#43495503)
You sure about that?

https://www.brookings.edu/books/dream-hoarders/

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/the-hoa...

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Re:Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun? by ikrenji on Thursday March 27, 2025 @04:06PM (#43497589)
do you really believe that the middle class sending their kids to a nice school is more detrimental to society than wage stagnation for the past 50 years?

https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/

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Re:Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun? by ForHackernews on Monday March 31, 2025 @06:39AM (#43533356)
Where do you think all that money went? Pretending the top 20% are "the middle class" is part of the problem. Just because you don't have a private jet doesn't mean you aren't one of the rich ones.
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Re:Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun? by ikrenji on Thursday April 03, 2025 @03:04PM (#43573947)
it went to the top 1%? what's the point of making an argument if you don't even look at the data...
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