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Sure, robots might be able to do it cheaper in the near future, but that’s unrelated to the question of whether productivity has gone up.
by tshaddox 5y ago
Sure, robots might be able to do it cheaper in the near future, but that’s unrelated to the question of whether productivity has gone up.
- jrsj 5y agoThere are many things that may just not get done at all though if they can’t be automated, or if automating them would be too costly. Stocking shelves in particular is probably one of those things. It’s hard to argue the labor is worth $26 an hour based on the total productivity increase of the corporation if they would just stop having you do it at all if it cost that much. The idea that an individual workers productivity is derived from the total productivity of the business isn’t entirely accurate. In the case of stocking shelves, the value is mostly aesthetics and executing a marketing strategy. The value of stocking shelves is based on the value that stocked shelves provide, which doesn’t increase linearly with the productivity of a store.