is that wages, like taxes, are now seen as a cost with no obvious benefit, and the sole goal is to cut it.

Thus, experienced workers are not worth more than beginners. Motivated workers are not worth more than unmotivated ones.

In a time where so many companies say that their main asset is their workforce, it's amazing how much they treat it like a commodity or a burden.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes