>Huh? Productivity per worker in the US is at an all-time high and is, I believe, the highest in the world?

Yeah, that's what happens when the latent cost of employing anyone for anything is so high all the menial stuff get shipped overseas or replaced with fewer expensive employees working with much more expensive labor saving technology/materials.

Also, I'm not sure how much I trust the numbers themselves, metrics and targets and all that.