Using two different y axis scales is really not good datavis. Can cause a bunch of misleading conclusions.
Edit: not that I’m saying the correlation in the graph is unfounded. I’m just saying it’s better to adhere to good datavis practices so you don’t open yourself up to this type of criticism
At least color the Y axes the same as the data they’re representing
Horrible graph/desc. I would prefer a legend with those 2 colors instead.
Worker productivity ≠ value workers add to economy.
Worker productivity can also go up by providing better production facilities, ie. investing in productive capital, such as modern machinery, robotics, etc. This has obviously also happened; a worker with a huge specialized production machine can produce as much as a 100 could without.
This is not so say that workers shouldn’t join unions or that workers shouldn’t recieve a bigger/fairer part of the profit - they should. I just think we shouldn’t mislead with stats like that…
Workers make the machinery, though. Then, workers use the machinery to make more things. It may be different workers at different stages, but workers are the only means of production. Everything is produced by someone working to do so.
Join a union.
It’s not misleading at all. Whether or not using a machine helps, the point is that worker pay is increasingly disproportionate to the value workers produce due to corporate greed and political complicity. That’s true with or without machines.
