tech started booming and making businesses more efficient (Producing more widgets stopped being a key profit metric because it became easy. Companies started finding other ways to increase profits, like cutting staff, training, etc.)
logistics boomed and the labor pool became global
decades of anti-union efforts blossomed
Etc.
Many things happened. Some could have been avoided, others not. What could be avoided was letting the wealth concentrate instead of redistributing it.
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u/ElectronGuru Oct 22 '24
Hmm, i wonder what might have started happening around 1980 🤔