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Re:Why isn’t new technology making us more productive? by ipnon on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @04:35PM (#31497264)
The right side of the bell curve can now program an application worth many dollars per month and zero marginal reproduction costs. The left side of the bell curve is incapable of extending these technologies but increasingly consumes them due to their low cost. This can explain the seemingly paradoxical phenomena of the rich becoming fabulously richer, wage growth stagnating on average, and productivity barely improving. The inventions of the last 50 years were of smart people for smart people. We wanted flying cars on Mars, we ended up exchanging Amazon warehouse jobs for free TikTok.
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Re:Why isn’t new technology making us more productive? by tonguez on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @08:00PM (#31499005)
“The right side of the bell curve can now program an application worth many dollars per month and zero marginal reproduction costs.”

“The inventions of the last 50 years were of smart people for smart people.”

building the surveillance state for big brother isn’t intelligent. also, they get paid a salary.

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Re:Why isn’t new technology making us more productive? by npc12345 on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @05:15PM (#31497608)
There's also people with no high school diplomas making 6 figures from advertising on those very same social networks.
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Re:Why isn’t new technology making us more productive? by vkou on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @05:17PM (#31497624)
A good hustler can make six figures in a sales job without any diploma.

Sales doesn't care about your credentials, all your boss wants to know is if you can close deals.

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Re:Why isn’t new technology making us more productive? by ceeplusplus on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @07:00PM (#31498544)
Emotional intelligence is still intelligence. You need high EQ to be a good salesman. So still on the right side of the bell curve.
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Re:Why isn’t new technology making us more productive? by theteapot on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @07:07PM (#31498606)
Different bell curve.
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Re:Why isn’t new technology making us more productive? by avgcorrection on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @07:02PM (#31498565)
Siri, give me the most HN comment on productivity development. (Golly gee, this consumer technology sure is swell)
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