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@RichardSiggs
Linking better #pay to #productivity only fuels the fallacy that productivity increases come from workers working harder. This is a non-sequitur.

Higher wages are required to maintain and improve livelyhood in society, yes. Business owners wishing to improve productivity must reinvest a portion of their profits to modernise production tooling and methods as well as expending funds into ‘research’ for such improvements.

Let’s not give the #grifting system ammunition to squeeze yet more ‘production’ out of workers using old and ineficient #tools and #processes.

Linking higher #wages to productivity is just as damaging as linking so-called wage #spirals to #inflation.

#Economics101 - don’t fall for #neoliberal economic scams

Do Plants Know Math?: Unwinding the Story of Plant Spirals, from Leonardo da Vinci to Now by Stéphane Douady, 2024

A breathtakingly illustrated look at botanical spirals and the scientists who puzzled over them.

Charles Darwin was driven to distraction by plant spirals, growing so exasperated that he once begged a friend to explain the mystery "if you wish to save me from a miserable death."

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#plants
#botany
#maths
#spirals
#Fibonacci

Nature’s Secret Code: New Findings Shatter Long-Held Beliefs About Fibonacci Spirals
A 3D model of a 407-million-year-old plant fossil has reshaped our understanding of leaf evolution. This study has also provided new perspectives on the remarkable patterns observed in plants.
the typical spiral configurations of leaves seen in nature now were not prevalent in the earliest terrestrial plants that first appeared on our planet.
scitechdaily.com/natures-secre #Fibonacci #Spirals #evolution #palaeobiology

SciTechDailyNature’s Secret Code: New Findings Shatter Long-Held Beliefs About Fibonacci SpiralsA 3D model of a 407-million-year-old plant fossil has reshaped our understanding of leaf evolution. This study has also provided new perspectives on the remarkable patterns observed in plants. Early plant leaf arrangements differ from those in many contemporary plants, challenging a longstanding