Rising Labor Costs as an Incentive for Resource-Intensive Technology
Increased labor costs, driven by rising worker power and wages, create a persistent incentive for businesses to innovate. To protect profits, firms often adopt new, labor-saving technologies that substitute human workers with non-human energy, particularly from fossil fuels. This strategic shift results in production methods that are more energy-intensive and contribute to significant environmental degradation, or the 'impoverishment of nature'.
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