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On the subject of janitors, NYT did an interesting case study on how companies' shift away from conglomeration and towards a focus on core competency has changed the opportunities for advancement for support staff workers directly

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/upshot/to-understand-rising-inequality-consider-the-janitors-at-two-top-companies-then-and-now.html

s0nicfan posted...

You say its not a result of unfairness but that's how the argument has always been presented. "These people are getting more money at a higher rate than me, and that's unfair." It doesn't consider the possibility that ANY improvement in either their wages or their access to QoL improvements may have only been made possible through work at those other levels which required a higher level of personal and economic investment.

I'm saying unfair is a vague and meaningless term and that it's not useful to the discussion; looking at how structural changes impact workers is useful to the discussion because it identifies ways things can (or can't) change

What is "fair"? It means something different to everyone. Workers would say that fair is getting their pay increased commensurate with the growth of their productivity. Capital would say fair is getting the full return on their investment in their capital expenditures that enabled worker productivity to skyrocket.

I'm trying to point to the actual things that are happening that are causing the trend balrog0 has showcased to occur.
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