coming up on this episode of The Round Table.

How much of the laptop or white collar economy

do you think is bullshit jobs?

And especially versus sort of the more real hard asset

manufacturing economy is something you know well,

having run a manufacturing business.

Yeah, that's a good question.

I mean, you bullshit jobs

and everyone should read David Graber's book

and my review of it by the same name.

Bulls jobs can be divided into parasitical jobs

and jobs, for example, just paper pushing

that don't actually do anything.

And ones that are overtly destructive of social capital,

such as most university educators

or gender studies people or what have you.

But the short answer to the question is in my experience,

I think it a safe figure to say 85 to 90%

of white collar jobs in America are purely parasitical

and if they disappeared, the economy would increase.

If the real economy calculated appropriately,

not the fake GDP figures, which obviously includes salaries

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