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[–] Riplikash@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Productivity and profits have steadily risen for decades while wages have hours worked have increased.

So business obviously were able to survive and thrive with more employees taking a larger slice of the profits. The businesses would be able to operate just fine.