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[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

It comes back to the apocryphal tale that Henry Ford paid his factory workers a living wage high enough to afford the vehicles they constructed. While there's good economics in respecting demand-side economics, eventually something is going to give in this overall decline that's been allowed to continue