one thing I don’t see talked about in these articles that compare the recent past (1970s) with modern workers is the huge influx of woman and immigrant labor.

I don’t care about the political or social aspects of this everyone can and should be able to work doing what they want, but there has to be some impact on workers leverage when we go from women being ~30% of the workforce (1970) to >50% (2026). Immigrant labor has also exploded over that time.

Again I don’t give a shit about who works, just noting that huge increases in workers must have some impact?