1. it’s not hard for them, it just means the corporation isn’t subsidized by the default cuts of their laborers. And if the burden should be on anyone is absolutely should be on the corporation. Workers shouldn’t get pay cuts by default. 2. Salaries don’t fall, they grow in *value* when they stay the same. And they only grow in proportion to productivity. Meaning they grow in value in direct proportion to the value they produce, and thus which is affordable. example, if workers are paid X, and they can produce 10 TVs per week. Then they get new machines, better techniques, etc. now they can produce 20 TVs per week. TVs have now likely cut prices by 50%, but the salary of the workers is still the equilibrium rate, because costs have also gone down the same amount, and the amount the workers produce has doubled. 3. If this was truly a problem then the tech sector would be devastated and tech workers would get paid terribly. Seeing as the cost per unit of compute plummets every year and the output of software systems grows exponentially. Yet it doesn’t happen. Why? Because this notion is a fairy tale that misunderstands why prices fall in the first place. This simply doesn’t happen and has nothing to do with why money grows in value when it has a scarce and incorruptible supply

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