Sure, because growing productivity and wages have gone hand in hand. …in order to make a livable income. And oddly enough, a good many companies are stymieing even that with reducing shifts to avoid overtime, or even to be able to call employees “full time” for benefits purposes, or classifying them as “independent contractors” to avoid more of the same.
It’s not productivity that is in question. Americans’ productivity is phenomenal compared to many nations, what is lagging is our compensation, benefits, and meanwhile, we look at the upper tiers of corporate management looking at multi-million dollar parachutes, even if they fail, and then complain that a guy who just wants to have insurance just “needs to get another job” when he’s already working two, even three, and his wife is doing the same.When you have nurses looking at working second, even third jobs, because hospitals are loathe to make them full time employees, yet want to have them on call availability to give them the coverage of full time, without the compensation, there is a problem, and that is an issue that isn’t “Americans need to work harder.” Especially when the heads of these hospitals are pocketing salaries that said nurses aren’t even a paltry percentage of, there is an issue within the employment sphere.
It isn’t about productivity, is very much a question of wage disparity, and folks looking to push that disparity even wider. Telling Americans that they just need to knuckle under, when they aren’t even allowed to become full time employees, or watch their wages at frozen levels, without even a discussion about increases for huge periods of time, and that entire industries are following these practices, so that really “competition” isn’t really a driving force for people to even think about switching jobs, there is a problem within the corporate culture, and within the job market.
You nitwit.