"why aren't the majority of people able to survive on less hours of labor, instead of needing more to survive?"
A possible reason could be the inflation created by printing money which eats up all the increased productivity.
"why aren't the majority of people able to survive on less hours of labor, instead of needing more to survive?"
A possible reason could be the inflation created by printing money which eats up all the increased productivity.
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sure you can print more money, but what does that do to effect the actual resources themselves? Resources are produced regardless of the money itself
"but what does that do to effect the actual resources themselves? "
That you need more money to buy that resources in order to produce those necessary goods for the people, making them more expensive. Because printing money causes a decrease on the value of money which gets people poorer and is all cause by the State (obviously, because they have the monopoly of the money creation and the only benefited are them), like in latin american countries like Venezuela and Argentina.