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PAY CUTS ARE COMING….Felix Salmon, after noting that FedEx has announced across-the-board pay cuts for just about everyone:

There’s been a huge shift in power in recent years from labor to capital: corporate profits have been rising much faster than wages for some time now. It makes sense that capital would make use of its newfound power to reduce labor costs in a deflationary environment of rising unemployment. During the boom, companies laid off workers because those workers demanded, and cost, too much money. Now that workers have lost their negotiating leverage, we might start seeing more across-the-board pay cuts.

Heads I win, tails you lose! In boom times you get laid off, in slack times you get your pay cut. That’s certainly one way to run an economy, I guess.

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