And if COVID has proven anything, its that the most productive workers are the ones who didn't even get a chance to earn the additional $600.
The essential employees, the ones that keep the country running, are forced to continue making a less-than-livable wage.
It's a very outdated notion that there is a linear correlation between "productivity" and pay.
This graph clearly shows how productivity and wages were decoupled in the US in the 1970s, even as productivity skyrocketed:
https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
And if COVID has proven anything, its that the most productive workers are the ones who didn't even get a chance to earn the additional $600.
The essential employees, the ones that keep the country running, are forced to continue making a less-than-livable wage.
It's a very outdated notion that there is a linear correlation between "productivity" and pay.