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Re:Why are we still working this hard? by skew-aberration on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:41PM (#50459100)
Previously posted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49603086

The author still writes with a savior complex. The basic observation, that productivity goes up but the rich get richer, is not novel to their work. Their explanations and conclusions about this issue are also not new either - they just rehash 250-year-old classical economics.

The actually (apparently) novel part - a macro wage model described in 'Pinning the Wage to Scarcity and Technology' - is not discussed in detail. We don't know its relative merits or if its predictions are historically accurate.

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