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It varies a lot - check this out https://www.businessinsider.com/france-vs-us-real-wages-2015...

The US is kind of an outlier.

I guess if you have the opportunity to have your stuff made by cheap or free labour whether low paid Chinese or AI robots, societies have a choice how to distribute the benefits which has varied from everything to the rich in the US to fairly even in France say. Such choices will be important with AI.



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