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by mathverse 856 days ago
It's the opposite. Price of goods is becoming more and more expensive due to larger demand and lower salaries.
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> It's the opposite. Price of goods is becoming more and more expensive due to larger demand and lower salaries.

We're discussing a hypothetical post-labor future in 5-40 years. We probably shouldn't predict the economic theory of this future by looking at recent trends. Recent trends are driven by business-as-usual things like supply chain disruptions. But we're still near full employment, so we're not on the gradient to realized post-labor just yet. Post-labor economics (and politics) will probably be radically different, all the economic assumptions we take for granted go out the window.

Salaries have actually been increasing — at least in the U.S. overall.