productivity is calculated by individualizing the total income generated by an employee in the course of a hour. shit like influencers and entretainment, and its supporting infrastructure, skyrocketed during the pandemic. and theres also the early ai bull rush. and the fact that the main factor of production is capital, which america has the most because of the dollar. you cant really take that statistic at face value and extend its effects to actual industrial capacity. especially when higher specialized service and tech productivity implies a decline in overall productivity in the areas not affected by the boom due to the rule of economic specialization from rybzynsky.
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