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oblio • today at 3:10 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> Wages do historically appear to grow slightly above inflation: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q so some of the productivity gain is captured by the workers.

The real question is: what's the rate of growth for capital returns vs labor returns? If capital returns are accelerating, over 50-100 years, yeah, we will still end up in techno feudalism.


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thomasahle • today at 4:15 PM

Right, real wages may go up, but if capital captures more of the growth than labor, inequality still goes up.

But I took OP to just worry about absolute growth in real wages.