Are We Being Overworked?

productivity and composition used to grow along very similar lines, but in the 19 eighties they split. And productivity continued to increase, but wages just state the same. So even as workers are being put through a squeeze where they are being pushed to work faster and faster, the amount of time remains the sameis so old that profit difference just goes into the pockets of the capitalists. i think part of the problem is that what gets factored into the equation for the wages is just the time rather than the productivity itself.

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