>It's very normal to think that the extra revenue growth you bring in should mean you have either 1) a larger share of the pie for every efficiency increase that grows revenue or 2) less expectation from you, as a worker, to labor as intensively since you are continue to bring in surplus value that is being actively skimmed from.

It's also very normal to force businesses by law to either or both. But it's not happening these days.

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singpolyma3 5 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

By law or by collective bargaining

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oblio an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

That's what happens when people think the government should be run like a business.

	▲	paimapi 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Arguably, I would say this has been a 50+ year-long project starting in the Reagan/Thatcher era that Clinton/Blair fully realized by ushering in de-regulatory, labor-disempowering neoliberal policies as part of the left political flank. There's been a lot written about this: https://jacobin.com/2026/09/labour-callaghan-neoliberalism-m... https://dissentmagazine.org/article/the-legacy-of-the-clinto... https://sk.sagepub.com/hnbk/edvol/the-sage-handbook-of-neoli...