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[–] BlackSheepBrouhaha 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

It depends how you measure/define productivity. They do increase a nation's GDP, but that's largely do to increased consumption from debt laden wage workers. If a worker goes into debt to sustain herself, her productivity is negative. She becomes a mechanism to transfer wealth between productive individuals, so in that sense she is productive by extracting liquidity from creditors to producers, but she herself is not productive.

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[–] Niggardly_Jew ago 

They were consumers before they were workers. They don't start consuming because they got a job, lol.

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[–] BlackSheepBrouhaha 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The history of Dairy and the fact there are children begs to differ. Children are a productive output.