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Are half the population of the Western world working bullshit, pointless jobs that contribute nothing to human society?
economist.com/open-future/2018
My intuition says, "Probably yes". But I'd like to see some better evidence. Is there some more objective way we can measure the value that someone's contributes to ? The current metric is "If people will pay for it, it has value", so if we can't improve on that we have to accept that these jobs are not bullshit.

@mneme

It's a very interesting topic and a nice interview you linked, thanks for bringing it up

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