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Wages were not high but with "contacts" and an extended family around you, you could get most things - his brother-in-law had saved up for an old car, and at weekends they all crammed in for picnics in the country.
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Unfortunately, this is not what I see is happening as unemployment remains high and wages are not growing (i.e. disposable income generally has not been able to keep up with the commodity-induced inflation).
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That is, if you are not a strong enough economy to pay high wages, you will likewise not be a strong enough economy to ensure against dumping, occupational exposure to workers, rights of workers to redress harm, infrastructure to manage toxic residual material downstream, government monitoring and enforcement of laws etc.
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