The result is; the productivityratiosofallindustriesincluding forestryindustry keeps increasing from 1980 to 2002. The main factor of the ratio increasing relies on the technological progress.
Higher productivity conflicts with their accepted goal of low student teacher ratios and with conventional wisdom on what is required for quality education.
Companies are starting to take a serious look at consumption ratios of compute power to energy consumed and then compare them against estimated productivity of applications and the equipment to deliver that application.
Real wages have not budged in two decades despite a doubling of student-staff ratios and a mounting paperwork burden, much of which paradoxically is designed to measure our productivity.