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Originally Posted by eschwartz
It is always a balance between pushing your workers to work harder and not pushing them beyond the point where they say "enough is enough, I'm out of here".
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One solution from the perspective of the employer is to import cheap workers from other countries who are willing to work for less because they can send the money home where it's worth more. This is good for profits in the short-term but may ultimately have a damaging effect on society.
Add to this that many jobs are being relocated to those same countries or replaced by robots, and you have a situation where employment opurtunites are in decline in the developed world and workers cannot say "I'm out of here" because there is nowhere to go that is better.
This is of course eroding the middle-class and widening the gap between the rich and everybody else.