One way of thinking about productivity: the ability to increase the total amount of resources available though your labor.
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
But even though *average* productivity increases with complexity, the composition is not uniform. Many people are rendered *unproductive*.
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Modern farm labor is so unproductive that the primary focus of competition is limiting the resources you need to survive.
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
We realize education & training will not save us from obsolescence post-singularity, but somehow they are the answer now.
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@sarahdoingthing "we" is different in those two examples1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@drethelin Easier to pretend fake solutions work when you, yourself, are not in the affected class?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing also the solutions don't feel fake to people who come out of college feeling smart and educated about Marxism1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@drethelin Marxism needs this though. Redistribution makes lots more sense when you realize most people aren't productive.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing yes but when you think people just need to "organize" and vote for leftists your metrics are all insane anyway1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
@drethelin It's a very delicate task, yoking a hyper-intelligent ox to a plow.
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