alt Hacker NewsOverall US economic productivity has gone up about 6X in 75 years, which included computers and the internet. So we absorb these things, but gradually.
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johnvanommen • today at 3:38 PM
Possibly the most interesting lesson from your graph is that the trillions in stimulus during Covid caused productivity to CRATER.
I noticed this anecdotally; in 2021 it was especially noticeable that people were just phoning it in at work, and “quiet quitting” was a meme.
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Looking at that graph is very interesting. There is no obvious point where the microcomputer or the Internet made any major difference.
For that matter if we want to talk about percentage increases that should be a log scale. Productivity improvements appear to be slowing down.