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Re:People kept working, became healthier while on basic inco... by mola on Thursday March 05, 2020 @01:13PM (#22496297)
What makes the people in Singapore New York and silicone valley more productive? The fact that they work in successful businesses and earn lots of money? So what? Tobacco is a successful business. How can you even define more economic output? You can't, you just use a very flawed proxy for economic value, money exchange.

I believe a good teacher is 100 times more productive than a software engineer. But that guy that wrote some tracking code earns a boat load more money. So you consider him more productive. That's just a huge fallacy. Value cannot be fully quantified, we use proxies for that reason, but we should always remember that.

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Re:People kept working, became healthier while on basic inco... by Der_Einzige on Thursday March 05, 2020 @02:04PM (#22496859)
It's funny because the post you responded to would be better as a refutation of this post rather than the other way around

OP just explained why people (or rather, the upper middle class tech workers) of these two cities for out produce potentially thousands of people. A team of software engineers who can nail software for flipped classrooms will replace thousands of teachers AND improve educational outcomes

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