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0 pointslostlogin3y ago0 comments

Have you a source for that criticism? Any ‘these days’ criticism seems to favour a past that never existed.

Productivity in the US is up as far as I can tell.

https://www.bls.gov/productivity/

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heather458793y ago· 2 in thread

Well, to be honest, consider the following:

Windows 11 is designed to suck peoples attention away from productivity by gamifying the operating system with rewards for useless mind-drifting, monitizing people’s attention.

Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, Netflix, etc are designed to distract people and keep them similarly hooked.

If the majority of the population is using those platforms, then the majority of the population is more distracted today than ever. How is that trend not tending toward reduced productivity?

renewedrebecca3y ago

> How is that trend not tending toward reduced productivity?

Because every study of productivity shows this to not be the case.

lostloginOP3y ago

I agree with the idea that Windows 11 is worse than what came before it, but people appear to be more productive when you look at sources like the one I provided. So despite the distractions (or maybe because they aren’t actual distractions), productivity is going up.

This isn’t something you can assess by feeling, intuition or one’s personal observation. It requires truely massive data sets.

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