Talk:Productive and unproductive labour
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New mysteries
I m surprised that the end comment is that the distinction between productive and unproductive labour is less and less important. I understand from what is written that more and more people get money from doing unproductive labour and that productive labour is less and less a way to accumulate wealth. IT seems to me that this is a clear path for economic suicide.
[edit] New mysteries
I m surprised that the end comment is that the distinction between productive and unproductive labour is less and less important. I understand from what is written that more and more people get money from doing unproductive labour and that productive labour is less and less a way to accumulate wealth. IT seems to me that this is a clear path for economic suicide.
You seem to have missed the point entirely. There is no meaningful distinction between "productive" and "unproductive" labour. This section of the article accurately describes the method of wealth creation in a global economy. What I can't understand is why the author calls it a "mystery". If no one objects, I'm going to remove the word "mystery". Salvor Hardin 07:21, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
I used the term "mysteries" in this article to refer to the modern difficulties of explaining the origins of new wealth. The suggestion is that trading processes have become much more complex, making it more difficult to identify who or what creates new wealth in contrast to redistributing existing wealth. In other words, it has nowadays become much more difficult and more controversial to distinguish between productive and unproductive activities, because of the new realities of a globalising services economy. Jurriaan 23:10 18 January 2007
