U.S. workers have gotten less productive – no one is sure why
Its simple. The healthy people moved away.<p>Its obvious that much of the GDP is based on low aptitude&#x2F;low skilled products and services (i call it fat juice and fat juice filtering, looking at buffetts investing advice). An unhealthy environment is not something to grow old with.<p>In the states, we can see that the illegal migration dumping is caused by the unskilled labor needed to support archaic GDP numbers.<p>As a technology native, I was too young to work when the H1-B economy started to spring up, but the linear from that is easy to see.<p>And somewhat off-topic, it looks like with the UK&#x27;s PM, we get to see more of the effects that infosys played on the economy.<p>Businesses that outsourced gave away their whole business model is an easy conclusion, so now they all have lower quality&#x2F;priced competition (obviously speculation, but plausible remains entertaining).<p>Looking at Walmart, I could never understand why they left their workforce in servitude, without paving the way for a future. The irony that &quot;merica&#x27;&quot; is filled with products from a communist country still astounds. They have no prospects for the future and supplement incomes with foodstamps and welfare.<p>Even quiet quitting is easy to decipher. Its an unhealthy environment.<p>Its simple. The healthy people moved away.