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Labor laws greatly expanded protections for the commoners, as did Social Security and other welfare programs.

• bergstromm466 6y ago
  > commoners When you use the word 'commoners', is this akin to the word consumers, in contrast to producers - who make and invent the things commoners/consumers buy and use? I'm asking because this definition comes up from Wikipedia: "Commoner: The common people, also known as the common man, commoners, or the masses, are the ordinary people in a community or nation who lack any significant social status, especially those who are members of neither royalty, nobility, the clergy, nor any member of the aristocracy." > Labor laws greatly expanded protections for the commoners, as did Social Security and other welfare programs. Many argue those post-war gains are being wiped out [1] [1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/precariat-global-class-rise-of-populism/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/precariat-global-clas... or video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnYhZCUYOxs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnYhZCUYOxs