top | item 43997225 (no title) test098 | 9 months ago You should maybe read about the history of the US labor movement to understand how and why we have good working conditions: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/themine... discuss order hn newest FredPret|9 months ago We have good working conditions mainly because we can now afford them.Do you think poor people didn't get upset / rebellious in centuries and millennia past?The difference now is that we have the GDP and tech to support much cushier lives for vast numbers of people. biophysboy|9 months ago Technology increases the size of the pie, but it is always possible to make the distribution of slices extremely unequal. More gdp and tech does not guarantee a better quality of life, as many countries today demonstrate. load replies (1)
FredPret|9 months ago We have good working conditions mainly because we can now afford them.Do you think poor people didn't get upset / rebellious in centuries and millennia past?The difference now is that we have the GDP and tech to support much cushier lives for vast numbers of people. biophysboy|9 months ago Technology increases the size of the pie, but it is always possible to make the distribution of slices extremely unequal. More gdp and tech does not guarantee a better quality of life, as many countries today demonstrate. load replies (1)
biophysboy|9 months ago Technology increases the size of the pie, but it is always possible to make the distribution of slices extremely unequal. More gdp and tech does not guarantee a better quality of life, as many countries today demonstrate. load replies (1)
FredPret|9 months ago
Do you think poor people didn't get upset / rebellious in centuries and millennia past?
The difference now is that we have the GDP and tech to support much cushier lives for vast numbers of people.
biophysboy|9 months ago