Comments by "" (@MamaMOB) on "The Productivity LIE" video.

  1. Productivity seeming to go up does not mean that the individual worker is working harder. It could just be that their boss made their job easier. Imagine someone making milkshakes. When they start off they don’t have a milkshake making machine. They have to do it all by hand. Then their boss buys a milkshake making machine. Their productivity goes through the roof! But they’re actually working less hard than they were before. Why should they get paid more because their boss invested in a machine to make their job easier? Also most jobs have a max pay. The most you’ll get paid for doing the job. You’ll never get paid more than that no matter how much work you do. Companies only have a certain amount of money the majority of which is going to go to the people who invested in making the company a thing. After that they budget every penny. It really doesn’t matter if your productivity is through the roof if they can’t afford to pay you more! What else happened around 1980? Oh right the feminist movement. Women entering the workforce. Family income going from one worker to two across the board. It almost seems like when you compared family income to productivity before they were two workers in a family you were comparing one individual to one individual productivity. Now since you have two workers in a family you’re comparing the productivity of one worker to the productivity of two workers. One of those workers may not be a hard worker. One of those workers probably works part time so they can take care of their children. One of those workers may quit their job for months or years on end. It’s almost like when you have two workers things are very different than when you only have one.
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