Are you able to share any data to support that?
It's why few on here get projects from upwork. A select few can specialize and demand US market rates while most compete with individuals happy to make $5 US an hour.
Growing the economy doesn't mean it is going to trickle to the poorest. Often a country with a high growth rate has a large divide between rich and poor. Often a slower growth country funnels that wealth to the lowest in society.
Statements that can be made without good evidence can be rightly dismissed just as easily.
Costing the UK overall $178bn is going to harm us all in the long run, so the initial article is your starter for ten.
If you want us to give a reasoned counter to your position, you first need to properly describe your position. Spouting “well you haven't cited sources either” when we ask you to cite sources is playground stuff, in a similar vein: show us yours and we'll show you ours. If you make claims and refuse to substantiate them, then complain that a counter isn't sufficiently substantiated, it isn't us that looks like they don't know how to properly discus things.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/933075/wage-growth-in-th...
> While wages are currently growing at a relatively fast pace, high inflation is currently cancelling this growth out, leading to the negative growth in real terms throughout 2022 and early 2023. Although it is likely that UK inflation peaked in October 2022, at 11.1 percent it has yet to fall below double figures as of March 2023. Forecasts from the Spring 2023 budget predict that the annual UK inflation will average out at 6.1 percent in 2023, before falling to 0.9 percent in 2024. Falling wages is just one of the aspects of the current Cost of Living Crisis, which has led to the steepest fall in living standards in a generation