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Why is technology not making us more productive?
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this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2023
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Simple. What "productive" entails has been evolving alongside tech advances.
A person today is expected to handle more work within a week that people achieved in a month a couples decades ago.
Here they mean economic productivity though - gross product / # employees.
It's more industry based, but use of automation and machinery plays a big role too.
That’s what the poster said. One person producing more work than a person decades ago
Yeah, but maybe the issue is that people's work doesn't correspond to output.
Like the "Bullshit Jobs" phenomenon.