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> The study shows that if wages kept up with productivity (as was the case in the immediate post-WW2 era) the bottom 90% would earn $2.5 trillion per year more.

The productivity growth is not a constant number. The productivity of a Machine Learning engineer has increased much more than the productivity of a gas station attendant.



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