<10% of our jobs create wealth and increases our purchasing power.
>90% of our jobs merely extract numbers, wasting wealth, destroying purchasing power.
Every economically unnecessary activity implies economic net loss. Billions of them are making us poor and baking our planet.
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Are there statistics to back that up? My initial tendency would be to think that any paid job is producing some benefit to those who pay to have it done. And that any unpaid activity produces some benefit to the doer. People are of course not irrational. But are they that irrational?
