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gbanfalvitoday at 8:55 AM1 replyview on HN

“Global prosperity” is a good one.

How is global prosperity achieved? Business owners get all the profits of our labor and maybe some of it trickles down? Workers get “prosperous” on crumbs?

I’ll be expectantly awaiting for my prosperity in the mail.


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simianwordstoday at 9:23 AM

You think global prosperity was won by unions fighting for rights? This is untrue and a folk theory that people hold on to, to justify their ideology.

Primarily global prosperity was achieved by higher productivity - the ability to do more with less work. Unions had very less to do for increasing productivity.

I’m not saying anything extreme because this is the academic consensus.

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