• Skaryon@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I love how in every topic about WFH there’s some dudebro going on about the economy suffering due to supposed lessened productivity and I’m like… Why should I care?

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      2 years ago

      I love the abstract “productivity”.

      Like yo, cancer is incredibly productive.

      Demolishing subsistence farms and replacing them with cash crop slave plantations is mad profitable.

      I could make thousands of dollars in a day if I just sold everything I own.

      Our metrics of economic growth revolve around basically doing all of the above, to varying degrees of figurative vs. literal-ness.

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      2 years ago

      People have been told their entire lives that the GDP of their nation matters without ever considering what it actually represents, or how it actually went up.

      Great, number go up, but why and who actually benefitted.