> The reason productivity doesn't go up is that it is decoupled from jobs. Some things are wildly productive and produce a few jobs and some other things aren't

> The reason productivity doesn't go up is that it is decoupled from jobs. Some things are wildly productive and produce a few jobs and some other things aren't very productive but employ lots of people. Well, that sounds like we have two large problems to solve: 1) Effective demand/participation, the "jobs thing" everyone talks about. 2) The underlying cost diseases that force huge amounts of labor to be employed at low (sometimes even negative) marginal productivity.