The data clearly shows that productivity growth is flat or even declining. What is your accounting of why software hasn't offset those numbers?

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simianwords 6 hours ago | parent [-]

You don't have a counterfactual to suggest that it would have continued increasing had it not been for technology. Is there _any_ credible economist who suggests that we might have higher productivity without tech?

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cynicalpeace 5 hours ago | parent [-]

There is no counterfactual needed. Productivity growth has declined, despite the expectation that software would accelerate productivity. I'm asking you why this didn't happen.

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simianwords 5 hours ago | parent [-]

There is a counterfactual needed because it is not clear whether the growth would not have declined even more without Software.

Again I'm asking - is there a single credible economist who says that the growth would have been higher without technology?

	▲	cynicalpeace 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not even proposing that growth would have been higher without "technology". I said information technology has not increased productivity growth compared to the past. This is an observation of fact.