"The guy is just argumentative for the sake of it" - that's harsh, Passive!
Everything he said is true. How do you pay for higher wages, unless productivity increases? If you just print up the money, then you are chasing your tail with higher wages = inflation, so we need higher wages which = more inflation, and all the time any savings and super that anyone might have made are being inflated away. Inflation is everyone's enemy - it is only Govts who like it to reduce their debt (which is ever increasing anyway).
