You know, the median age for a fast worker, specifically, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is 28 years old.

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The election of Mr Serwotka, a hitherto unknown benefits agency worker and fast-talking union official in Leeds, was a big surprise.

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In most high-tech fields today, the know-how needed to make a component, sub-assembly or finished product has progressed too far and too fast for the average worker to be able to propose any useful innovations.

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The result is that, although output per worker rises only slowly or not at all, wages go up as fast as they do in the rest of the economy.

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