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and as if this isn't something that flags with the historical trends
https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
In short, up till the 1970s worker pay and productivity moved nearly in perfect sync with each-other, more stuff happens, people get paid more, then, it stopped, company profits shot up, while worker pay barely went up at all (could be argued it went down due to inflation), Point is fixing that part first is kind of what matters. Then we can look into expecting the average person to care about "productivity" going up, THEN we can start finding out if AI is even being directed in a way that accomplishes that.
Man, it really seems to take off in 1980. What could possibly explain that?
Side note: while he seems good in comparison to Darth Raygun, Jimmy “the peanut” Carter was pretty awful on labor issues.