Quote: (11-17-2018 05:51 PM)king bast Wrote:
You could ask this question about 75% of all jobs. The answer would be: nothing. In this era of fakeness, even most jobs are fake.
If you ask someone what they do and they can't give an explanation within one sentence, it's because they don't do anything. Theirs is a fake job that doesn't even need to be done, yet they'll likely act as if it's the most important thing anyone has ever done, and that if they didn't go in to work for a week, the very fabric of society would be torn apart. The reality though, is that if they didn't go into work for that week, the worst that would happen is that half a dozen emails about nothing go unanswered. They can catch up on that weeks work by morning smoko on their first day back, then they just go back to paid hibernation. This is the dirty little secret of the workforce. We import hundreds of thousands of immigrants to pretend to work.
Pretty true really. I mean what drives the economy the most? Besides information (ie. news / Internet / media) it really comes down to manufacturing of widgets / pharmaceuticals / software, distribution of widgets / pharmaceuticals / software (in the retail sector widget distribution would be where Amazon has taken control) & services as a whole. Within the widget / pharmaceutical / software kingdom I'd say that engineers, scientists & certainly the business leaders (CEO's, COO's, CFO's) are at the top of the pyramid.
At the very highest end of services I guess you could say that includes fields such as medicine, law, etc. The financial industry (ie. Wall Street) at times resembles a giant Ponzi scheme that leeches off of the Fed (the organization that can whip up funny money at a moment's notice!)