Post #6091 by PhoolishPhilip on the Berkshire Hathaway board

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So you're saying there is no reason to expect lower returns on capital going forward, because current returns on capital are assisted by intensified exploitation of working people to the point where their standards of living have suffered?

I’m saying this might be what we’ve witnessing, and that the high rates of return occurring since Reagan declared open season on unions. Amazon’s suit to kill the NRLB would effectively end unions in America.

If the next half century holds the same fate for workers as the last half century, there is no reason to think the good times for capital will soon end.

My only point is that there are structural reasons to think that this time is really different … until it isn’t. And that might depend of the activism of working people.

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