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Re:Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way ... by paganel on Sunday August 19, 2018 @03:02AM (#17792988)
Honest question: what's wrong with being a crane maintenance worker or a crane operator? Cranes are cool, cranes help build stuff, cranes are complex. And if anything, out of the list of "desirable" jobs you mentioned at least two (police officers and lawyers) are the result of "bugs" in our societal system, they aren't productive.
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Re:Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way ... by hawkice on Sunday August 19, 2018 @03:46AM (#17793101)
Nothing is wrong with being a crane maintenance worker, and there is nothing wrong with being an accountant. But if a fifth of the workforce was accountants I would enter a panic.

That's why I asked if that was the pinnacle of human achievement. If nothing was better. Because it crowds our other things at that level.

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Re:Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way ... by rbobby on Sunday August 19, 2018 @06:46AM (#17793688)
Gov't (fed, state, muni) employ about 23 million workers. Total workforce is about 130 million. So gov't work is roughly 1/5 of the workforce... hehehe.
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