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dixiegrrrrl

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7. Important to notice that definition of productivity was changed

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 08:19 AM

Mar 2014

sometime back.
Fast food places became "manufacturing" places, every hamburger was defined as something "manufactured"
and this increased the GDP statistics.
Seriously.

So we would know what is defined as "productivity" to get a grasp of the true meaning of the chart.

There is, of course, no disagreement that we are working much more for much much less.

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