That's largely because of the deliberate deskilling and commoditization of labor by capital. If you structure your business so that most labor roles have low requirements and low productivity, you shouldn't be surprised when you have low productivity.
Of course, this model fails to account for all the low-paid but high-skilled employees in technical, high-productivity roles, who are being quite simply exploited.
> That's largely because of the deliberate deskilling and commoditization of labor by capital. If you structure your business so that most labor roles have low requirements and low productivity, you shouldn't be surprised when you have low productivity.
Is anyone surprised by this? Is anyone expecting receptionists to deliver millions of dollars of value to their business? There are just some roles that have to be done where the value delivered per worker is very low. Labor intensive work. And, in fact, some of it is paid proportional to the value delivered. Fruit pickers are paid proportional to the amount of fruit they pick, for instance.
> Of course, this model fails to account for all the low-paid but high-skilled employees in technical, high-productivity roles, who are being quite simply exploited.
Of course, this model fails to account for all the low-paid but high-skilled employees in technical, high-productivity roles, who are being quite simply exploited.