The endless money printing from the federal reserve has been winning the war on technological deflation. The wage gap is wider and the average worker can afford less than they used to. Basically you’re poor as shit and stuff is dirt cheep. Just look at the price of assets that are less affected by technological deflation like real estate and precious metals.
Corporate greed. It is in their best interest to have a consumer population that relies on convenience. People that are overworked (40 hours a week, plus travel, meals, home maintenance, etc) pay for fast food and easy make meals. They buy cars so they don’t have to use their precious limited leisure time waiting for public transportation. They pay for cable and streaming services and video games. They need specialists to do their taxes and home projects because they don’t have time to learn how to do it themselves. _And_ if everybody is overworked, pressed for time _AND_ short on cash, they won’t notice/care/have time for the _big_ problems, freeing up big business to buy governments, destroy the planet and abuse their workers.
_Every_ time in the history of capitalist labor that someone has suggested that laborers should be safer/better compensated/have more rights, businesses have pushed back, whining about menial cuts to their profits like Dudley whining about getting 36 presents when last year he got 37.
8 hour workday?? We’ll go out of business!
OSHA regulations? We’ll go out of business!
No more child labor?? We’ll go out of business!
Maternity/paternity leave? Health insurance? Minimum wage? Environmental protections? Weekends?
It never ends.
How about the specialization of work ? I mean, this created more jobs as well right ?
Previously we did not have positions for product managers, social media workers, several thousand content producers , photographers , etc , etc?
Hasn’t the specialization of labour created more jobs than was removed from automation?
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