Why is technology not making us more productive?soyagi@yiffit.net to Technology@lemmy.world – 49 points – 12 months agobbc.com18Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsSimple. 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 agoYeah, 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.
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 agoYeah, 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.
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 agoYeah, but maybe the issue is that people's work doesn't correspond to output. Like the "Bullshit Jobs" phenomenon.
That’s what the poster said. One person producing more work than a person decades agoYeah, but maybe the issue is that people's work doesn't correspond to output. Like the "Bullshit Jobs" phenomenon.
Yeah, but maybe the issue is that people's work doesn't correspond to output. Like the "Bullshit Jobs" phenomenon.
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.