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The Productivity Paradox: Why Technology Makes the Economy More Efficient But Most People No Richer
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this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2026
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All of this is fairly obvious to someone not wearing a MAGA hat.
Productivity per person has increased since the 80's, but wages have not followed - rather they have remained largely stagnant.
As such, the increased profits are instead going into an increasingly small amount of very rich people's pockets
Wages have increased a huge amount from the 1980s
Your graph is deceiving because it starts at 20 and not 0 on the y axis. It shows a very modest increase in wage, there are much better charts out there that plot wage growth Vs productivity growth. This makes the theft all the more obvious.
This chart uses mean productivity and MEDIAN wages. You posted a chart meant to deceive.