> A weaver who knows how to use an automated weaving machine produces 3 times as much cloth as one who doesn't, so why don't they get paid 3 times as much?

An automatic weaving machine, operated by a capable operator, produces 3 times as much as a manual weaver. The productivity increase is the machine, not the operator. That's my entire point.

The owner of the machine reaps the surplus, not its operator.

> This is the problem of the decoupling of productivity and wages. It started happening at precisely the moment the gold standard was ended - weird.

You'll get no argument from me about the ills caused by the financialization of the economy, but I don't think that's what's going on here.