Where has all the productivity gone?

Balaji Srinivasan asks in a Twitter thread why we’re not far more productive given the technology available. Here I collect the five possible explanations he mentions. The Great Distraction. All the productivity we gained has been frittered away on equal-and-opposite distractions like social media, games, etc. The Great Dissipation. The productivity has been dissipated on […] The post Where has all the productivity gone? first appeared on John D. Cook....