This is two different topics which are not necessarily correlated.
Productivity is not generated by hard work. Contrary to everything your here productivity gains do not come from say one worker producing 1.1 widgets more than he produced last year. Manual piece work is rare in the US.
Productivity is driven by investment in capital equipment, technology, and knowledge. If a robot replaces one widget worker it of two then prodictivity has increased.
Now why would anyone want to invest in one of the highest taxed and regulated and lawsuit happy countries in the world? Answer = fewer amd fewer. Thus declining prodictivity. Nothing at all to domwith age.
Topic two. Older workers know how to show up, are generally better educated, and less entittled.
*** “Topic two. Older workers know how to show up, are generally better educated, and less entitled” ***
And we take the Row assigned and figure out how to make it work instead of complaining ...
I do a lot of different “Jobs” I always look at it like ... “How do I make this pay Twice or Thrice”
Experience and knowing a lot of people and you can take the “Worthless” Contract or Job and make it work (most of the time) These are usually the only ones available to the non-frat party oldsters.
I don’t tell them if I succeeded or failed... I just ask for another one.