Re:Toxic Workers Are More Productive, But the Price Is High
by zawazzi on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @04:55PM
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US Productivity grows by 2% a year which suggests in aggregate, most people are playing a zero sum game.
Re:Toxic Workers Are More Productive, But the Price Is High
by sjjshvuiajhz on Thursday February 21, 2019 @05:25PM
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I think productivity is better conceived as the first derivative of value wrt. time. So productivity growth is the second derivative. It’s good news if that number is positive at all.
Re:Toxic Workers Are More Productive, But the Price Is High
by dasil003 on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @05:15PM
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That just suggests disposable income is a zero sum game. Within GDP you can have massive disparities in value generated.
Re:Toxic Workers Are More Productive, But the Price Is High
by AngryData on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @08:02PM
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Over an undefined time span it isn't zero-sum, but on a day-to-day or year-to-year basis it might as well be zero-sum unless you can somehow get the world economy to grow faster than a few percentage points at a time. Especially when so much of that growth is tied up with not very liquid capital assets of a much smaller demograph of wealthy people.
Re:Toxic Workers Are More Productive, But the Price Is High
by imtringued on Thursday February 21, 2019 @05:43AM
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I don't understand this argument. Just look at the hen breeding comment. The entire point is that "losing" can be more beneficial than "winning" but the highly efficient winners end up pushing out the sustainable losers. The end result is a local maximum (in relative terms, please spare me the fixed pie bullshit).
Even at the most level of the most fundamental unit of the economy -- the worker -- being a team player is just as important as being a good individual contributor. For most jobs, "fit" is a huge factor in hiring.