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Zero growth can also mean that it is not possible to be more or less efficient. If labor efficiency is not correlated with productivity - then there may not be
by lumost 5y ago
Zero growth can also mean that it is not possible to be more or less efficient. If labor efficiency is not correlated with productivity - then there may not be any economic incentive to well organize labor.
As an example - historically agricultural productivity was not a question of labor organization, or labor efficiency. A farmer could only grow but so much food with the land aloted, available water, and crop/fertilizer technology of the time. This amount was relatively close to subsistence.
The sowing of crops could be made more efficient in terms of person hours. But, without a production surplus, and no additional land to cultivate - there wasn’t much else for the individuals to do with the surplus hours.
Similarly, in a modern society labor productivity can be decoupled with economic output. Google search will be the dominant search engine regardless if it’s engineering team is efficient or inefficient.