If you're paying your employee the same amount they generate in revenue, you might as well not have that employee.
It's not so much that your revenue is directly paid to the employee, it's that revenue due to employee productivity has gone up at a rate that exceeds payment for that work, whereas before they generally kept time with one another.
I think the trend you're talking about has a lot to do with many corporations (and even regular businesses) going international. They're able to sell their goods/services to a wider market, so they make exponentially more money.
In a perfect world, we'd be nationalistic, and workers WOULD see the benefits. The sad reality however, is that if they were to jack up employee salaries while trying to do international business, companies would just do their production in other countries.
If you want to see employee salaries rise, you should be advocating for deregulation in all ways morally feasible. The amount of value absorbed by government bureaucracies well outstrips the wage discrepancy.
You may THINK you want unions to fix the problem, but the solutions are Nationalism and small government.
I agree that the problem is a lot more complex than A --> B, but the gist of the article and the base complaint is the one I raised. Pay for play has not gone up with hay made.
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