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Re:Productivity Growth in the US Continues to Decline by acchow on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:28PM (#16633378)
The graphs you linked clearly show that the growth is declining.

"Productivity growth is declining" doesn't mean "productivity is declining"

The red line here is going upwards and to the right, but its slope is decreasing:

https://imgur.com/a/M2T7C

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Re:Productivity Growth in the US Continues to Decline by elliotec on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:54PM (#16633563)
The article title (not the HN title) is "Productivity in the US Continues to Decline" which one could interpret as "productivity is declining" because that's what it says.

But you're right and they should've been more clear about it in the article. Thanks for the proper HN title.

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Re:Productivity Growth in the US Continues to Decline by candiodari on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @10:50PM (#16645249)
People will generally be interested in "real productivity", which subtracts inflation. That will make that graph distinctly negative.
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