Ed Zitron
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12,703 appearances
63 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 5d ago
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I have a really dumb economics question that I think my listeners will appreciate.
How is productivity measured and what does it mean?
As far as like on a on an economics level.
It's a labor measurement.
Are we actually doing that though?
Because I've seen data that says productivity isn't really growing.
At least
No, no,
two and that made me very angry.
largest discretionary budgets and yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right.
Yeah, yeah.
I have learned this lesson myself like a few years ago, like in 2024.
There were so many times where I made this mistake, where it's just you take you find a data point, you hope it proves everything.
And these days, while I do absolutely use data points, as I kind of did with the AI CapEx not being used thing, that was at least, hey, you can point at construction in progress and say, Oh, you have hundreds of billions of stuff not being used, versus just
saying, Oh productivity data's up.
That must be AI.
Or it's down.
It's down.
AI's the yeah yeah.
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