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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/Buttered_Hotdogs on 2023-09-19 06:35:31.
Companies have been putting the squeeze on regular people and everybody feels it. Wages are down, costs are up, we all feel like we're drowning. Life is a grind and nothing makes sense anymore. My question is, how did things get this way? Was it a natural trend we simply didn't catch until we boiled alive like frogs? Or is there some set of laws or actions that set this in motion?
It's safe to assume that as long as the people calling the shots continue to profit enormously from it, they're not going to use their power to reverse the flow of money back to working people. That's just not how people work. But realistically, what would it take to return things back to a state where it's not just a constant fight to stay afloat? What realistic chain of events, could actually reverse the direction of this?
Surely things were worse than this through the industrial revolution before labor laws and standards existed. How did we get out of it then, and how does our situation now compare to that, other than in magnitude?