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by jaredonline 4530 days ago
> In the early part of the Industrial Revolution the rewards of increasing productivity went disproportionately to capital; later on, labour reaped most of the benefits.

This whole article is BS. At what point in history has labour reaped most of the benefits of any industry?

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Haven't RTFA yet, but it may be a poor attempt to reference the time-frame in which, as labor movements (unions) spread and the foremen on the line elevated themselves to higher positions, that there was a small disruption in the otherwise overreaching power of capital.