That's exactly what happened. To keep the system working given both rising inequality and rising productivity, the money was loaned to workers instead of provid

That's exactly what happened. To keep the system working given both rising inequality and rising productivity, the money was loaned to workers instead of provided as salary; see Richard Wolff: http://www.mediaed.org/transcripts/Capitalism-Hits-the-Fan-Transcript.pdf http://www.mediaed.org/transcripts/Capitalism-Hits-the-Fan-T...