shouldn’t this be the default position of the economy though? Especially in a democratic society, where voters are actually educated.
The workforce is your primary labor pool, so assuming enough governmentally enforced labor protections, and significant drawbacks in more exploitation, it will inevitably trend towards less.
It should be, yet it isn’t.
There was a brief window in north America where that was the case (or at least they were making progress), but that was decades ago.
shouldn’t this be the default position of the economy though? Especially in a democratic society, where voters are actually educated.
The workforce is your primary labor pool, so assuming enough governmentally enforced labor protections, and significant drawbacks in more exploitation, it will inevitably trend towards less.
It should be, yet it isn’t.
There was a brief window in north America where that was the case (or at least they were making progress), but that was decades ago.