Supply and demand is decoupled from productivity

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Sep 15, 2023
4:29:16pm

justAnotherCoug All-American

Supply and demand is decoupled from productivity

If Chick-Fil-A launches a new program that makes its drive through more productive it's not going to turn around and pay its workers more. Supply and demand governs their pay. The additional revenue goes to some combination of the executives and owners.

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justAnotherCoug

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Nobody ever suggests that we all work more/harder.

Madam Pattirini

9/15/23 8:15am

I actually think that may have been the problem with the decay of society twenty

bYuFB

9/15/23 8:19am

Nah. Absent collective bargaining, more productivity enriches owners/investors

justAnotherCoug

9/15/23 8:19am

Agreed. The US worker is already the most productive and has less time off

SwanSong

9/15/23 8:22am

In Europe they are always on holiday

TNT

9/15/23 8:47am

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Madam Pattirini

9/15/23 8:24am

Productivity doesn't just happen. Either you are getting more efficient with the same work, or working more. The benefit

RobertCohn

9/15/23 9:08am

These are the lies they tell you to keep people working hard

justAnotherCoug

9/15/23 6:22pm

Yes. Since 1971 workers have been falling farther and farther behind

9/15/23 9:13am

As they should. Others are contributing more to the world now as education and creativity increase in value faster than

RobertCohn

9/15/23 9:16am

And have been getting more and more contempt.

9/15/23 9:24am

You think it’s because of global competition?

conetah

9/15/23 12:18pm

Partly. But really it's about what drives GDP growth. A laborer can only increase his value by working more. A highly

RobertCohn

9/15/23 6:38pm

Interesting. I always thought supply and demand for labor set the price for

MyTwoCents

9/15/23 3:18pm

Supply and demand is decoupled from productivity

justAnotherCoug

9/15/23 4:29pm

Work harder on what? Where we need harder work is in the home.

Mitty

9/15/23 12:14pm

RE: Work harder on what? Where we need harder work is in the home.

bYuFB

9/15/23 12:51pm

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