> American productivity had basically been flat since 1973 and was under further strain from unproductive spending in government, health care, and education. T

> American productivity had basically been flat since 1973 and was under further strain from unproductive spending in government, health care, and education. The last graph I saw showed American productivity going up at the same rate all since post-WWII to now. Please don’t say that the stagnation refers to worker wages starting to stagnate sometime in the 1970’s.