Capitalists drove salaries down because of "reducing [their own] costs". In a nutshell. So there's more money for The Shareholders. They have been boiling this frog since 1971 so it's not so obvious for most of people

But there is a point at which it breaks and what Mike wrote is a good point. Either it's stopped and reversed somehow or it continues to create a dystopian cyberpunk scenario. I'm always grateful to the US for conducting these social experiments for all of us