Productivity increase doesn’t benefit the workers
Productivity has been growing for a long time, but since the 1970’s that growth hasn’t benefitted the people who contributed to that growth.

Actually since the 80’s unemployment became very prevalent. The owners and shareholders are the only ones reaping the fruit. Some people argue –quite convincingly that this old model reached its peak in 1974.
At the same time, happiness levels have fallen in the US in the last decade. Also stress and burn out levels have been growing, as well as depression and other mental health issues.
So very few people are benefitting from this growth in productivity. The resulting income inequality creates a lot of tension in society.
It would greatly benefit the health of society (and its members) to review this situation and implement solutions to more evenly spread the ‘profits’, both in time (more free time) and money.
