It might be that PCs were the last of the huge productivity boosts… but saying there’s been “negative economic growth” since the advent of the PC or thereabouts

It might be that PCs were the last of the huge productivity boosts… but saying there’s been “negative economic growth” since the advent of the PC or thereabouts is a pretty fringe take. It would necessarily imply basically every serious attempt at measuring economies, and valuing the activities taking place therein against inflation, is fundamentally, terribly wrong, by absolutely massive amounts. Now, those are hard tasks and there are many opportunities for flaws and biases, but many people around the world have devoted serious efforts to understanding and correcting for them, and the consensus is very much Not That.