David Ricardo's Iron Law of Wages posits that real wages tend to stabilize around a subsistence level, which is the minimum income necessary for workers to survive and reproduce. According to this theory, any increase in wages above this level leads to population growth, which in turn increases the labor supply and eventually drives wages back down to the subsistence level. Thus, despite fluctuations, wages will ultimately gravitate towards this equilibrium point.
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