Productivity cult is one of [modern](modern.md) [capitalist](capitalism.md) religions which praises human productivity above everything, even happiness, well being, sanity etc. Kids nowadays are all about "how to be more productive", they make daily checklists, analyze tables of their weekly performance, give up sleep to study some useless shit required by the current market fluctuation. Productivity cult is all about voluntarily making oneself a robot, a slave to the system.
The name of the cult itself [says a lot about it](name_is_important.md). While a name such as *efficiency* would probably be better, as efficiency means doing less work with the same result and therefore being happier, it is not a surprise that capitalism has chosen the word *productivity*, i.e. producing more which means working more, e.g. for the price of free time and mental health.
Productivity is such a big deal because **programmers are in fact actually getting exponentially less productive** due to overcomplicated buggy [bloat](bloat.md) and billions of frameworks needed to get basic thing done nowadays -- this has been pointed out by [Jonathan Blow](jonathan_blow.md) in his talk *Preventing the Collapse of Civilization* in which he refers to the video of [Ken Thompson](ken_thompson.md) talking about how he developed the [Unix](unix.md) operating system in **three weeks**.
A considerable number of people are attracted to [suckless](suckless.md) software due to its positive effects on productivity. These are mostly idiots who just try to exploit anything they encounter for [self interest](self_interest.md) without ever aiming for greater good, they don't care about Unix philosophy beyond its effects on increasing their salary. Beware of them, they poison the community.
