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at 12:10 am on February 10, 2021 | 2 comments
For years, MB has campaigned for higher wages on the basis that it is what capitalism needs to survive. This position is based on sound economics, that is higher wages drive productivity gains, the longer-term input of rising living standards. And the understanding that unfettered capital chasing ever lower-wage jurisdictions is a race to the inequality bottom culminating in rising western populism.
One of the most refreshing features of the swing to the American left embodied in the Biden administration is its plan to lift chronically low wages that haven’t grown at all in thirty years. This is given even greater urgency by the fallout from COVID-19, via BofA:
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