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But how would Jeff Bezos swim in money if his underpaid parcel couriers would be able to financially survive on working four hours a day?

It's utterly ridiculous how much of the productivity increases of the last decades ended up not distributed to the workers either in terms of wage/salary hikes or reduced working hours. Something like billionaires rarely existed for a long time, usually it was the royal family and that's it - and now, alone in the last 20 years the amount of billionaires is 6x higher than at the start of the millennium. All of that wealth has been looted from the lower classes and in quite a few cases the taxpayers.

[1] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/220002/umfrag...




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