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Legend2440yesterday at 9:09 PM1 replyview on HN

Baumol's cost disease also benefits you, because it makes your wages go up even if you haven't increased productivity.


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smallmancontrovyesterday at 11:25 PM

Maybe on doctornews, but this is hackernews. To us, Baumol's disease means your job, which has increased productivity, disappears, while your costs, which don't have increased productivity, go up.