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We are more productive. We are doing more with less people. It doesn’t seem like we are more productive because most people are overworked which creates an il
by sudden_dystopia 4y ago
We are more productive. We are doing more with less people. It doesn’t seem like we are more productive because most people are overworked which creates an illusion of unproductivity. Most of those jobs that were lost in 2008-2009 were never replaced, everyone left just had to pick up the slack which tech helped facilitate
The other aspect is that a lot of our tech is vapid entertainment. As buzz aldrin said, “They promised me mars colonies. All we got was Facebook” or something along those lines.
- chii 4y agoI think somehow people have managed to conflate higher productivity with better quality of life. There's no such connection imo. The quality of life of a lot of people might have decreased, and because they mentally have a connection between productivity (of the country) vs their own quality of life, they feel that productivity increasing not leading to their own quality of life increasing, is a bad sign.