[zawazzi]

US Productivity grows by 2% a year which suggests in aggregate, most people are playing a zero sum game.

[sjjshvuiajhz]

I think productivity is better conceived as the first derivative of value wrt. time. So productivity growth is the second derivative. It’s good news if that number is positive at all.

[dasil003]

That just suggests disposable income is a zero sum game. Within GDP you can have massive disparities in value generated.