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Re:E-Commerce as a Jobs Engine? One Economist’s Unorthodox View by a_imho on Sunday July 23, 2017 @05:05AM (#14831476)
Most people in the West shouldn't need to work but instead of coming up with UBI and taxing rich shareholders more, the government prefers to invent increasingly narrow and meaningless jobs to keep the masses busy.

Reminds me of David Graeber On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs. It strikes a similar chord [1]

[1]http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ (need to click 'here' to access)

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