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Australia’s productivity problem may be impossible to measure

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i don’t look at the inflation rate as a direct comparison for my pay rate because for example if education goes up that’s no impact on me, diesel prices doubling and tripling has had no impact on me (i drive an ev), electricity price rises have no impact as i have solar and solar battery, I live a pretty frugal life to a degree

Productivity has grown, so why have wages not kept up?

Has it?

But its main concern was decade-long stagnation, driven by complex factors now under further review by the Productivity Commission.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-28/productivity-commission-growth-report/105336036

afaik productivity has been stalled for ages

the construction sector, one of the most well compensated sectors if not these most well compensated has been going backwards for years

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Australia’s productivity problem may be impossible to measure

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i know exactly where the money goes as our company is public which means every year they release a financial report and i can see the companies financials

marketindex.com.au has been great for this

for example if you want to see what bega is up to just go here https://www.marketindex.com.au/asx/bga?src=search-all then scroll down and click

21/10/2026 2026 Annual General Meeting Presentation $

voila!

https://www.marketindex.com.au/asx/bga/announcements/2026-annual-general-meeting-presentation-3A704543

now because i’m lazy head over to betashares direct

It’s a great year! After losing 8.5 million last year they’ve made 54 million this year! hurray!

You can then lookup in the report what they’re spending the money on

when there are productivity gains, there’s no pay rises

I’ve had a pay a raise every year since 2018, if i wasn’t getting pay raises i would have left

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A conversation from earlier today

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the nrl community is dead, the ai community is dead, mistral comm is dead, brisbane comm is dead, fitness dead, is there a gym comm? hardstyle dead, lemmy shitpost: https://lemmy.world/post/53465720 full of american politics, technology full of anti-ai and anti-big tech articles (honestly tiring after 4 million articles on the same thing), no economic comm that isn’t american and iirc that one is also pretty much dead, there’s practically 0 australian content here, what do you propose I post about? maybe i should make some more posts in dead comms for people to go though my history and downvote them?

tbh im mainly bitching because i’m disappointed, i can’t force the people who post here to care about other things so all i can do is whine

also insert “we should improve society somewhat” meme here

pps. dw as said ill be gone as soon as something better comes along

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Woman tries to stop looters in France

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She is basically saying stop stop! this shop is not the cause (not what we are protesting about)

they say that he (the shopkeeper) is not her father

the white guy comes over and says they won't listen to her and she could get injured

She keeps shouting: why are you doing this, this is not the cause

inside they are saying take the wine while the shopkeeper looks on sadly

at the end they say they went shopping! and does anyone want some shampoo or ice

Will leave to someone actually french to translate but this is the gist of it i think

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The US is ordering every civilian agency to rip out DeepSeek, even tools built on it

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I have no idea why anyone would be using the online version of deepseek or qwen or glm or kimi in the us gov, surely they would be using chatgpt or claude?

i was so confused im like who cares if they’re running deepseek in lm studio or on their own servers but then they mentioned the sign up process

It says DeepSeek's sign-up process collects personal information and may "track and digitally fingerprint users", and that its apps work by having people type in information, which could mean sensitive data from US government staff or contractors ends up in China.

im like right, the online version, that makes sense