My town built lots of roundabouts, and the population are used to them, but they have a problem with unbalanced traffic, and it's been growing, so traffic has been getting more unbalanced - more people coming from directions the engineers who planned the road didn't expect
The real problem, of course, is that though they are trying they are not able to replace the traffic with mass transit. The buses get stuck in the same traffic, light rail seems impossible, even with political will
You're nostrils do that as you sleep to keep the one closest to the bed/ground closed. Since people roll from side to side over the course of a night your nostrils swap which one's closed
I had a team of contractors working on some code. They had learnt in their previous jobs to document everything in the work wiki (aside from the design documents which have their own repository)
And it was good they did, since the project was put on hold due to too much mismatch between backend and front, and all the contractors were fired (a day before Xmas) leaving the useless doco as the best reference for whoever needs to resurrect our code
Productivity increases were probably from computers. My job has been replacing hundreds of processing staff with computer software. Lately it had been moving the last paper processes to electronic and consolidating as much data as possible
I think my industry (data capture and processing) has had x100 productivity increases. I doubt the same has happened in more physical work
Put another way, people aren't more productive, systems are
Administration costs have risen, food quality has gone down*
Everything has become market based, inflation is built in and required in modern market stability models
The very wealthy have learnt to extract more of the value share
Residential land in good places is now scarce and so expensive, where it was abundant and cheap back then (because population has increased)
They seem to think Bitcoin would fix it, but Bitcoin is in the market, and is more volatile than cash
They seem to think gold has stable and intrinsic value
Of course what happened then was computers, they are the biggest productivity multiplier since the wheel, and I wonder, do we the workers deserve that share of our productivity that was provided by our employers' computers?
*That's contentious, some people think food quality has gone up, despite obesity rates now vs 1972
It's a pretty easy switch, the differences are all mirrored
It took me about an hour of driving to get used to the other way