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aletier_v

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6. 36 hr wokweek would create 10 million jobs

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Fri Nov 16, 2012, 11:19 AM

Nov 2012

the original crash was in 2001, everything since is a holding action.

as productivity increases, hours spent on production MUST decline and hours on consumption must increase. the prblem is that capitalists have driven down real wages.

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Origins of job market troubles hard to pinpoint [View all] xchrom Nov 2012 OP

"Hard to pinpoint"? It's called offshoring. Duh. leveymg Nov 2012 #1

Exactamondo!!!!!!! Little Star Nov 2012 #3

No kidding! 99Forever Nov 2012 #4

And 2000 is when the 'offshoring' floodgates opened Strelnikov_ Nov 2012 #2

The middle class has no money MannyGoldstein Nov 2012 #5

36 hr wokweek would create 10 million jobs aletier_v Nov 2012 #6