Why is technology not making us more productive?
Why is technology not making us more productive?
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Why is technology not making us more productive?
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The purpose of technology is not to make us more productive. The ultimate purpose of technology is to take the burden of productivity away from us so we can live our lives without the chains of labor. Anyone telling you differently is likely your boss.
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I feel like rich people in the UK don't want to invest in tech or new ideas. That's the reason Silicon Valley exists: there's smart people and willing investors there.
Even so, it's mainly CA, NYC, and maybe Boston doing the heavy lifting in the US. The rest of the country is just some cows and corn. Maybe Chicago has tech companies now. Deep dish tech? I dunno.
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Deep Dish Tech sounds like a neat business name
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The UK has a poor investment culture. Funds are concentrated into unproductive areas like landbanking and housing development because they have the largest return in our ridiculous property market, while investment into actual emerging technology development is neglected and the UK ends up as a client nation to the US.
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All I heard was welfare and tax cuts. You got it! 👉
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Depends on the tech. I am certainly thankful I don’t have to wash my clothes manually down by the river with a washboard and a bar of soap. It’s much quicker and easier to throw them in the clothes washer.
As the fortune cookie says, “Work expands to fill the time available.”
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There is nothing that doesn't use digital now, but it is difficult to see what is going on because none of this is visible in the statistics. We just don't collect the data in ways that would help us understand what is happening.
What I get from that article is that it's much harder to measure output/productivity of a digital service compared to physical goods, so productivity going down is more of an estimation instead of gathered data (?)
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Simple. What "productive" entails has been evolving alongside tech advances.
A person today is expected to handle more work within a week that people achieved in a month a couples decades ago.
That’s what the poster said. One person producing more work than a person decades ago
Thats the point of the article, we have been getting more productive, but have stalled.