>Today's middle class is doing office work instead, at often enough pretty high productivity (i.e. corporate profit per work hour) rate. Only if you work for s

>Today's middle class is doing office work instead, at often enough pretty high productivity (i.e. corporate profit per work hour) rate. Only if you work for some of the wealthiest companies in the world does your individual productivity scale that well, but unless you work somewhere like Luxembourg, the Mittlestand most likely works for averge companies. >There's nothing preventing the world's largest employers to pay their employees an actual living wage. There is: Lack of wage legislation and/or poor market competition so you're forced to accept any wage or starve.