[dennisw]

The US is producing 4 times what China does. With a quarter as many people. .....

And we still run up a huge trade deficit with them
And since you are such a genius what do you tell all those workers who are out of production/factory jobs due to your much vaunted "productivity"? 
There is a dire lack of useful jobs in this country. We are full of overstaffed gov't bureaucracies and much of our economic activity has little to do with real world needs. 75% of lawyers could be sent to Mars and no one would miss them. Lots of medicine is testing etc is useless but done just to ward off possible lawsuits. How about all those useless "climate scientists" and ethnic studies professors?

It was better when we (whole world too) were less productive and everyone's labor was needed

(this post will make J throw a conniption fit)

[expat_panama]

"...better when we (whole world too) were less productive and everyone's labor was needed..."

Seriously?

[JasonC]

I tell them to stop whining and get a frickin job.

"It was better when we were less productive"

Hey let's wreck all the backhoes so everyone can lean on a shovel in the sun 10 hours a day and call it "work". It'll be great.

You first.

Luddites are idiots...

[JasonC]

Oh and let's get rid of all those darn trucks, to make more jobs driving packmules along.

And those dang combines, got to get rid of them, so more millions of human beings can spend 12 hours a day breaking their backs sniffing the backsides of an ox pulling a moldboard plow.

Water systems waste so much possible labor hauling water by the bucket on poles.

Why can't we all get jobs turning mills by leaning against a pole and pushing with our legs instead of running all those work wasting power plants?

Life was perfect in Egypt, everyone needed every slave's labor...

[Yardstick]

Maybe we could mop up the excess labor with a massive leisure industry. Rather than doing make-work jobs at the DMV, they could be giving massages or serving pina coladas or putting a custom paint job on a restored ‘65 Mustang or making water skiis. Maybe we should make leisure/hobbies a higher priority.

[Niuhuru]

“75% of lawyers could be sent to Mars “

Let’s keep Larry Lucido though. I like him.