> Wages measure human labor, while productivity measures all output, including that which comes from automation.
Until we have sentient robots, all that automation is simply a lever with a human laborer at the end of it.
Until we have sentient robots, all that automation is simply a lever with a human laborer at the end of it.
When do we stop?
Depends on where in the world you're looking. In India, something like 50% of the population works in agriculture. At the scale of India's population that's a significant fraction of the population of the planet, it's more than twice the population of the entire US.