[stevievee]

This article and many like it "assign fault" to the labour by making too many assumptions about the cause of the decrease in labour productivity being a decrease in labour effort, motivation etc. In reality, this just a misrepresentation of the metric. Not sure why you don't think this would anger some people.

[Qem]

The fault lies in whoever took the decision of ofshoring most high productivity manufacture jobs elsewhere. The service sector is not subjected to huge productivity gains. If one works flipping burgers or serving tables, productivity of individual workers is mostly bound. There is no Moore law increasing the number of burgers flipped or tables served per worker per year.