True Patriot Love - June 14, 2026


Your Raise vs. Productivity： Why You're Losing Purchasing Power! #shorts


Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

236.44

Word count

260

Sentence count

1


Summary

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Productivity has been falling in this country for decades, and over the past 20 years we ve fallen further behind where we could be because of this problem. What does this mean for the economy and the economy at large?

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 what happens then when my workers show up and ask for a raise i'm going to say listen inflation in
00:00:05.120 this country is pretty low and stable it's around one to three percent so i'm willing to give you
00:00:09.200 a one to three percent raise but that's about it if you want more than that then you need to up
00:00:13.520 your game you need to be more productive now if you can up your game one or two percentage points
00:00:19.280 then i don't mind tacking on an extra one two percentage points to your pay because
00:00:23.200 you're working harder for me but the workers pushback is going to be but i'm not in a position
00:00:27.840 to be able to work harder you haven't given me the tools to be able to work harder so the employer
00:00:31.520 just shrugs and says sorry then that's the way it goes but even worse i'm telling you that
00:00:36.560 productivity has been falling in this country so when the worker comes and says i want a two percent
00:00:41.200 raise the employer says look i'd give you two percent but you're working one percent less hard
00:00:46.160 so in fact i'm not giving you two i'm only going to give you one i'm clawing back some of that
00:00:50.480 and guess what you lose purchasing power and so on a year-to-year basis you might not notice it
00:00:55.520 but accumulated over decades, it's really become apparent that we have clearly fallen behind,
00:01:01.580 not just the Americans, but fallen behind where we could be because of this productivity problem.