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by vorpalhex 40 days ago
> without corporations hiring people to undermine wages there would be pressure to pay higher wages for low skill low education workers

Supply and demand. If you increase labor supply, prices go down.

More workers will in fact depress labor prices.

> Higher skilled and educated workers are making less too.

This is outright false. Skilled trades are suffering from an inability to fill vacancies and salaries are going up.

> There is a systemic effort to gut the middle class

The middle class is shrinking.. because the middle class is becoming upper class.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/upper-middle-class-income-us-wh...

The middle class earners are earning enough to become upper class.