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by rqtwteye 1128 days ago
There may be more jobs overall but I think inequality will grow even more. Since the 70s we were seeing a disconnect between worker productivity and worker wages and I see this trend to accelerate with tools like AI.
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Most people don't seem to mind inequality (the difference between the lowest-earning and the highest-earning cohort) as long the average (or more likely the median) person is able to prosper and even grow wealthier over time.
When you look at housing we already have reached the pint where things have gotten worse for the median due to inequality. We have a few percent of the population that can afford very high prices and raise the prices for everybody that way. This is clearly a problem of inequality.