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Re:Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow [audio] by antisthenes on Monday September 29, 2025 @10:43PM (#45421393)
> The current job market is a coordinated effort to wrest power back from workers after a few post covid years saw large increases in worker power.

Any kind of increase in "worker power" during Covid was promptly erased by inflation. It was a media meme and never existed.

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Re:Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow [audio] by Legend2440 on Monday September 29, 2025 @10:48PM (#45421416)
The lowest wage workers have seen large gains.

Pre-covid Walmart used to pay $7.25/hr, now it’s $15-$20.

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Re:Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow [audio] by antisthenes on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @09:08AM (#45424951)
Just a straight up lie. I have several friends who worked at walmart since ~2013.

They were never paid as low as $7.25/hr.

> The lowest wage workers have seen large gains.

Again, statistically, nationwide false.

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Re:Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow [audio] by Legend2440 on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @03:46PM (#45430333)
I personally worked at Walmart in 2014 and I made $7.25/hr.

Here's some statistics for you: https://www.epi.org/publication/strong-wage-growth-for-low-w...

> Low-wage workers experienced historically fast real wage growth (adjusted for inflation) and the strongest wage growth compared with workers at all other parts in the wage distribution. The hourly wage for the lowest-paid workers at the bottom 10% grew a tremendous 15.3% over this period.

>The wage growth at the lower end of the wage distribution was exceptional, significantly faster than their average growth in the prior 40 years and faster than higher-wage workers over the same five-year period.

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