[cloutchaser]

> Why hasn't worker pay arisen proportionally, since if they're working for multinationals they are similarly serving millions to billions?

They have. In China and other assembly countries. And there’s your ultimate answer for what the actual problem is here. For Americans. Pretty good deal elsewhere.

[Apocryphon]

A decade or so ago, maybe. It would appear that China is speedrunning the American postwar boom-to-bust experience.

https://www.axios.com/2023/01/24/workforce-china-population-...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/24/world/asia/ch...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/09/business/china-covid-tests-fa...