alt Hacker News> Like, do you even understand what you're saying?
That comment is unnecessary and has the effect of making people feel bad.
I think the rationale is that wages are stagnant in comparison to investments (stocks) and costs (inflation). So there's decreased incentive to focus on wages as a form of income, and more incentive to focus on investments.
I've definitely felt this personally, as my income shifts towards investments, my will to work for a wage has decreased. That shift has increased because I've accured more investments, but also because investments have grown kind of ridiculously compared to my wage.
> So there's decreased incentive to focus on wages as a form of income, and more incentive to focus on investments.
That's been the case for a while now, and is steadily getting worse. But the issue is, workers usually rely on their wages to live. It's not a choice for the vast majority of people.
And it's unsustainable. You can't build a society of exclusively parasites that feed on the work of fewer and fewer hands.