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Proto-bourgeois author in 1673 whines that wages being too high makes it hard to compete in foreign markets
(hexbear.net)
Moreover, handicraft tradesmens' high wages, which they exact for their work, is greatly mischievous [. . .] is destructive to trade, hinders the consumption of our manufactures by foreigners, and the exportation of those vast quantities
Wow you can feel the Capitalism being born
source: page 54 of this dusty old tome whose title is too long
Bougies. Bougies never change.