Why Australia Really Has Low Wages

The global investors of international capital have more leverage than PAYG workers.

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F. Jacobin thinks that Australia has just entrenched lower wages for younger workers. Actually, since the 1990-91 “recession we had to have” (then Treasurer and later Prime Minister Paul Keating), that’s always been the case: a cheap workforce in part to ensure low credit ratings for favouring international capital to find a safe haven in the Indo-Pacific that is not an offshore financial centre like Singapore or Hong Kong. However, Karl Marx did not really cover shadow banking or tax havens.

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