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Australia: "Our society has dealt with significant advances in technology and productivity before and the lesson is that those gains must be reflected in wages, or the social contract will break" (www.ragtrader.com.au)

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's the fun bit - corporations are so short-sighted they don't care if the social contract falls apart. They can't see beyond next quarter.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The social contract is already beginning to crumble, at least in the US. Insatiable greed knows no bounds in these parts, and them assholes are gonna fuck around until they find out.