The Washington Post article mentions a 1994 research paper by William Nordhaus as the source, but their link doesn’t seem to work. Here’s a working link to the paper:
https://cowles.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2022-08/d1078.pdf
The Washington Post article mentions a 1994 research paper by William Nordhaus as the source, but their link doesn’t seem to work. Here’s a working link to the paper:
https://cowles.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2022-08/d1078.pdf
It’s skewed by lighting efficiency as well. Note the last column on the right. This table is taken from the study linked in the OP
Also this is more a study on the efficiency of modern labor and how it’s measured than anything else. What I gathered from the paper is that we as a society are not being paid our collective worth in our wages.