That's a very marxist view on wages, actually... Capitalism seeks rent from having capital, so the obvious optimization is to squash the ability to demand high

That's a very marxist view on wages, actually... Capitalism seeks rent from having capital, so the obvious optimization is to squash the ability to demand higher wages (original Marxist argument about "ownership of means of production" was how big capitalist controlled access to machines you needed to the work, thus being able to depress the wages)