Worker productivity ≠ value workers add to economy.
Worker productivity can also go up by providing better production facilities, ie. investing in productive capital, such as modern machinery, robotics, etc. This has obviously also happened; a worker with a huge specialized production machine can produce as much as a 100 could without.
This is not so say that workers shouldn’t join unions or that workers shouldn’t recieve a bigger/fairer part of the profit - they should. I just think we shouldn’t mislead with stats like that…
Workers make the machinery, though. Then, workers use the machinery to make more things. It may be different workers at different stages, but workers are the only means of production. Everything is produced by someone working to do so.
It’s not misleading at all. Whether or not using a machine helps, the point is that worker pay is increasingly disproportionate to the value workers produce due to corporate greed and political complicity. That’s true with or without machines.
Worker productivity ≠ value workers add to economy.
Worker productivity can also go up by providing better production facilities, ie. investing in productive capital, such as modern machinery, robotics, etc. This has obviously also happened; a worker with a huge specialized production machine can produce as much as a 100 could without.
This is not so say that workers shouldn’t join unions or that workers shouldn’t recieve a bigger/fairer part of the profit - they should. I just think we shouldn’t mislead with stats like that…
Workers make the machinery, though. Then, workers use the machinery to make more things. It may be different workers at different stages, but workers are the only means of production. Everything is produced by someone working to do so.
Join a union.
That’s a fair point, I haven’t thought about it like that.
It’s not misleading at all. Whether or not using a machine helps, the point is that worker pay is increasingly disproportionate to the value workers produce due to corporate greed and political complicity. That’s true with or without machines.