The only way to keep wages high is for workers to unionize and meet their bosses' concentrated power of capital with the concentrated power of a union:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/23/a-collective-bargain/
Bosses know that the reason that workers' wages stagnated is because they smashed unions, but they told workers that it was because "immigrants stole their jobs."
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