Would you support a reduction in productivity to boost job creation?

[phk]

Would you support a reduction in productivity to boost job creation?

[Mint]

One of the dumbest ideas out there.

[Sam Spade]

I have issues with the idea that there is a correlation between the two OR, more importantly, that the correlation is an end result you would like to see (dilution of wages comes to mind).

[opebo]

I would certainly support a much larger percentage of the population being idle on a dole, but 'reduction in productivity' is not really important.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     No, since whether they pay competitive wages or minimum wage this seems likely to be a losing prospect for any company involved.

[ag]

Your question is not properly posed. Reduction in productivity per se (ie, as an exogenous shock to productivity) is much likelier to reduce the number of jobs available. If you question is, would one support a certain policy that "boosts job creation" even if the by-product would be reduction in productivity, then it would be better if you defined which policy you are talking about.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The question may be an obvious false dichtomy, but it's also just a hypothetical.

[Gustaf]

The way I understand is that if productivity is reduced we would need more employees to keep up production. But it seems to be based on assumptions that I disagree with. I would argue that falling productivity would make unemployed workers less attractive than they were before.

[ag]

The way I understand is that if productivity is reduced we would need more employees to keep up production.

And, of course, the volume of production is provide for by a 5-year plan

You are right to disagree w/ assumptions )

[Torie]

Ya, unleash the Luddites to destroy The Machine baby, and bring back Gandhi's spinning wheel to boot.

[k-onmmunist]

     No, since whether they pay competitive wages or minimum wage this seems likely to be a losing prospect for any company involved.

This.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

No.

[pbrower2a]

Would you support a reduction in productivity to boost job creation?

An absurdity. The only way to create more jobs without increasing productivity is to mandate featherbedding. The people with phantom jobs would likely have connections to gangsters or to political hacks.

We should have taxed the huge gains from productivity increases that did not appear in wages when we had the chance -- or did we have a chance with the right-wing hacks in the government who offered tax cuts for the super-rich as a panacea.