> For example, American manufacturers use far fewer robots than their competitors, in particular in Taiwan, South Korea and China, according to the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington think tank.

Just handwaving this aside is ridiculous. Productivity is a function of capital investment in technology. If all the free capital is going into share buybacks, $5 billion in the last year, no wonder productivity is flat.

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