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by spiralx 1752 days ago
This site goes into more detail on how productivity as shown on the famous chart is useless for telling you anything useful and worse means something different from the layman understanding of the word. With charts and basic maths.

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/01/17/debunking-the...

> tl;dr: "Productivity" in economics is not the intuitive sense of "productivity" the word in common English usage that indicates human work.

Oh snap. I read your link but not the tl;dr, oops.