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Why are we busier? Go here http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/productivity http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/productivity change the sta
by mey 12y ago
Why are we busier?
Go here
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/productivity http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/productivity change the start of the graph to 1959. I would argue that technology has radically helped our productivity but at the end of the day, people are always expected to get better.
Honestly I don't know if this is sustainable but the idea of always growing from a gut check doesn't seem to be. The question could be what is the breaking point and what will break?
http://www.bls.gov/lpc/ http://www.bls.gov/lpc/
- psychometry 12y agoGains in productivity don't help the working class much; they mostly help the owners of companies. Those owners have no financial incentive to reduce working hours to compensate for gains in productivity when they could rather cut half their workforce and tell the remaining workers they need to work harder/longer because there is more competition for their jobs now. Those who predicted a "leisure society" back in the 1950s obviously didn't realize Marx predicted the opposite would happen a century earlier.
- mey 12y agoExactly. To achieve a leisure society we would need to see GDP grow while the productivity index either was flat or decreased. If you use the same link and look at GDP per capita on that same graph, in 2008 area, productivity started to overtake GDP.