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Unequal exchange of labour in the world economy - Nature Communications (www.nature.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The statistics aren't surprising really. If you were fresh off a subsistence farm with no fancy machine tools and minimal education, you'd have to work more hours to produce the same value of stuff. The process of building up capital and education is called "development", and it's well documented to work at raising wages.

I don't scientifically see why the author would go straight to "systematic wage inequalities", and I strongly suspect there's some politics in the mix there.