Its not productivty...
...its the ability to produce in >volume< enough durable materials that people in the other parts of the world want to buy...TVs, cars, home appliances...all the things people used to buy from us that they now buy from southeast asia and Europe.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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