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This comment ignores the fact that wages have stagnated while productivity has skyrocketed.
by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
This comment ignores the fact that wages have stagnated while productivity has skyrocketed.
- barry-cotter 9y agoWages have stagnated but total compensation hasn’t. The cost of health insurance in the US has gone up a lot and most jobs have health insurance.
- bluntfang 9y agoyou know that you pay for health insurance that your job provides, right?
- barry-cotter 9y agoYes, just like the employer/employee legal split of social security is an accounting fiction, not a description of tax incidence. That does not change the fact that wages/salary have been relatively flat in the US for decades but wages/salary + health insurance has very much not been flat.