Work steals from you.
What may be less obvious than the time work takes from you is the money that work has gradually kept from you since at least 1979, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Worker productivity, or the measure of crap you make for the boss, has steadily risen for decades. From 1979 to 2025, productivity rose by 92.4 percent.
Feel tired? I bet. This is why. It’s not you. You’re being squeezed.
More, worker pay during that same period has increased by only 33.6 percent, despite the increase in productivity. This means productivity increased by 2.7 times faster than pay.
You’re not imagining it: You really are literally doing more for less.
