soyagi@yiffit.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoWhy is technology not making us more productive?www.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up154arrow-down15cross-posted to: workreform@lemmy.world
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minus-squareRazgriz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up55arrow-down1·1 year agoSimple. What “productive” entails has been evolving alongside tech advances. A person today is expected to handle more work within a week that people achieved in a month a couples decades ago.
minus-squarenivenkos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year agoHere they mean economic productivity though - gross product / # employees. It’s more industry based, but use of automation and machinery plays a big role too.
minus-squareFUBAR@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year agoThat’s what the poster said. One person producing more work than a person decades ago
minus-squarenivenkos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year agoYeah, but maybe the issue is that people’s work doesn’t correspond to output. Like the “Bullshit Jobs” phenomenon.
minus-squareNighed@sffa.communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoThats the point of the article, we have been getting more productive, but have stalled.
Simple. What “productive” entails has been evolving alongside tech advances.
A person today is expected to handle more work within a week that people achieved in a month a couples decades ago.
Here they mean economic productivity though - gross product / # employees.
It’s more industry based, but use of automation and machinery plays a big role too.
That’s what the poster said. One person producing more work than a person decades ago
Yeah, but maybe the issue is that people’s work doesn’t correspond to output.
Like the “Bullshit Jobs” phenomenon.
Thats the point of the article, we have been getting more productive, but have stalled.