Of course while Americans are far more productive than we were decades past, for over a year now Business Sector Productivity has been faltering like it did years ago back when the '08 crisis hit. Making me nervous.
Then again, my take is that the big point of the piece was "the notion that consumption drives economic growth". What a crock. Like saying the key to good farming is sitting around eating food all day. Astounding how half of the U.S. actually believes that.
“Astounding how half of the U.S. actually believes that. “
The balance bwetween productivity/consumption doesn’t bother me as much as the notion that they feel entitled to consume as much as the productive amongst us out of fairness.