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		moultano on Jan 17, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Life is Short > You can be the most productive widget-maker in the factory. You are using a non economic definition of productivity, and he is using the economic one. In Economics, productivity is the value of what is produced, not the quantity.

pbz on Jan 17, 2016 [–]

That still applies if you don't/can't benefit from that increased value - i.e. it benefits those above instead.

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