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There are negative sum jobs as well. Pharma people, promoting harmful drugs, soldiers or criminals.



soldiers do not belong in that group. they generally do significant good just as a sitting deterrent. much more than yet another mediocre web developer. how their political masters choose to use them however ...


>they generally do significant good just as a sitting deterrent.

... to other soldiers. And the same logic dictates that everyone involved in the whole dismal advertising industry does significant necessary good works by offering their clients a means to neutralise the benefits that their rivals get from THEIR advertisers. I'd contend that bullshit jobs that are necessary to counteract the effects of other bullshit jobs are still bullshit!

How it's possible to make both sets of bullshit jobs obsolete is left as an exercise for the social engineer, of course...


Not all criminals are negative sum. For example, digital piracy is positive sum.




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