I don't understand this argument. If everyone has become more productive, why would wages rise? Wouldn't we see that as inflation then? I think the rise of productivity is more seen in the growth of the GDP
If my employees are more productive, I need fewer employees to produce the same number of widgets. If this happens across all industries, the price of labor goes down because there's more labor and fewer jobs. Historically, between lower prices driving more demand, other workers driving the productivity gains (maybe they make robots for factories), and new opportunities for workers, we still have full employment, but the long-standing economic question is what if they don't, and there genuinely isn't enough work for a lot of people.
Folks that get laid off from one industry because of productivity gains go to another one. The most dramatic example is farming, where in 1800 it used be that 90% of people were farmers and in 2000, 1.8% were employed in ag. Closer to home for many of us, there are more software engineers and we're dramatically more productive this generation due improvements in languages, raw processor power, storage technologies, open-source libraries, databases, and tools. The price of our labor has gone up because we're able to produce more.
You're presuming a fixed demand for labour, regardless of how much value it provides. Imagine if, for a moment, productivity increased to the point where one person could do all current work for all current employers, but of course there were many, many other people who could provide the same productivity. Do you expect that employers would not figure out a way to use some of that additional productivity to make more money?
The demand for a product increases as value it provides increases. The net effect is that employers' profits increase, but so do labours'. The divide on the split is determined by relative strength of their positions, but if it ever goes to zero for either side, it really kills the incentive for increased productivity in the first place (if employers see no benefit from increased worker productivity, there certainly won't be any more demand, and there will be no effort to exploit this new productivity... if employees see no benefit from the increased productivity, they'll have no incentive to be more productive).
Either wages keep stagnant and prices drop following productivity growth (gold standard) or wage growth = price growth (inflation) + productivity growth (fiat system).
Doesn't Reddit own the data now?
That's the unfortunate truth of these platforms. They offer your a platform and pay for hosting and you give them your attention and content.
Legally, they don't own the data, but they do have a perpetual license to the data and can do basically whatever they want it with it. Not much of a difference but it's one of these things where the details might be crucial.
I haven't tested it but if as a user you were to ask for your days to be deleted they'd have to comply, at least in EU. So if there was a mass walkout a lot of comments and post would disappear.
I'm guessing they mean something like icons, or colour-coded tiny-font words with borders "lake", "city", "village" etc, on each title, to be able to tell at a glance what the different places are without having to expand them.
Not GP, but you have e.g. Brocken and Cologne as targets, but the former is (the summit of) a mountain, the latter a city. A categorization of the destinations (maybe based on wiki voyage metadata?) may be a good addition for your very nice web app.
BTW: You have Heligoland[1] as a reachable destination. I don't think that's actually true, those are real high sea ferries for which, AFAIK, the 49 Euro ticket is not valid. :)
Yeah, that would be a cool idea. Will put it on my ToDo list.
Nice catch on Heligoland. Thanks. The final journey is via Schiff and I had not filtered that out. However, I don't know if DB categorizes Schiff that are included or excluded from the 49 Euro ticket.
There was already a 9€ ticket last year, while I wansnt in Germany at that time I didn't read a lot about overcrowding.
With a more expensive ticket the effect will probably be even smaller today, though in the long run all trains will probably get more filled up.
Everybody I know complained about it. The 9€ ticket didn’t cover the ICE trains and instead put more strain on those lines that are already needed by lower- to median income commuters. Regional train lines have rush hours too and during those 9€ Tickets months some wild videos went viral, where things got heated between old and „new“ users
