Question

Say someone invent a machine capable of helping women pick up the roses. the effect of this invention would be to _______ the wage women receive from their labor.

Answer 1

I believe that such a machine would increase the wage paid to the women since it would most likely allow the women to produce more roses in the same amount of  time. This is why for example, in mines, manual labourers get paid less than those who operate sophisticated machinery since the latter usually results in much higher production rates say of ore/day.