Ryan Avent considers various theories for relation between wages, machine use, productivity.
in my image i show the Worker in historical perspective. from the undernourished, blood-spitting proletarian barely earning his sustenance, through highly skilled, well-paid professional of late 20th century, to the current undereducated serf, cheerfully pushing buttons (or some similar idiotic task) on the money-making "intelligent" machine.
The Economist Newspaper, London.
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