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Fast forward through the '90s, we had the dotcom revolution and a temporary rise in productivity growth.
The amazing thing is that productivity did not increase in those factories for 30 years.
It fell to the next generation to invent new work processes, and then productivity soared, often doubling or even tripling in those factories.
As we'll see in a moment, productivity is actually doing all right, but it has become decoupled from jobs, and the income of the typical worker is stagnating.
And here's productivity.
After a lag, productivity accelerated again.
Today, productivity is at an all-time high, and despite the Great Recession, it grew faster in the 2000s than it did in the 1990s, the roaring 1990s, and that was faster than the '70s or '80s.
Productivity is at an all time high, but fewer people now have jobs.
This is the great decoupling of productivity from employment, of wealth from work.
So clearly the productivity of firms in Silicon Valley has a lot to do with the skills not only of the workers at their firm, but the workers at all the other firms in the metro area.
Since the late 1990s, increases in productivity have been decoupled from increases in wages and employment.
So, farming based on how a prairie builds soil, ranching based on how a native ungulate herd actually increases the health of the range, even wastewater treatment based on how a marsh not only cleans the water, but creates incredibly sparkling productivity.
This kind of market risk is mind-boggling, and has direct implications for not only the incentives of farmers to invest in higher productivity technology, such as modern seeds and fertilizers, but also direct implications for food security.
I have spent the last years trying to resolve two enigmas: Why is productivity so disappointing in all the companies where I work?
In the 80s, Thailand dramatically improved the productivity of its small farmers, ensuring that it was able to start to dominate export markets for produce.
What really started to change in agriculture is when you started moving from this brute force engineering and chemistry into biology, and that's where you get your productivity increases.
And as you do that stuff, here's what happens to productivity.
Agricultural labor productivity increased seven times, 1950 to 2000, whereas the rest of the economy increased about 2.5 times.
We already have some indicators of productivity on this stuff.
We will get where we're going faster and society will recapture vast amounts of lost productivity now spent sitting in traffic basically polluting.
When Ford famously introduced the $5 day, which was twice the prevailing wage at the time, he didn't just increase the productivity of his factories, he converted exploited autoworkers who were poor into a thriving middle class who could now afford to buy the products that they made.
We looked at the GDP and productivity growth of Germany over the last 20 years, and calculated the following scenario: if Germany wants to continue this GDP and productivity growth, we could directly calculate how many people Germany would need to support this growth.
Will technology change this picture and boost productivity?
Now, the short answer would be that our numbers already include a significant growth in productivity driven by technology.
The Germans have a certain reputation in the world when it comes to productivity.
In the last 25 years, as capital productivity has increased, labor productivity has been flat, in fact even a little bit down.
The individually productive chickens had only achieved their success by suppressing the productivity of the rest.
If the only way the most productive can be successful is by suppressing the productivity of the rest, then we badly need to find a better way to work and a richer way to live.
Productivity is the principal driver of the prosperity of a society.
In the largest European economies, productivity used to grow five percent per annum in the '50s, '60s, early '70s.
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