I don't like it, but it's definitely relevant. In a broad sense, the shift towards a services-based economy is a type of "make-work" in the shadow of heavy aut

I don't like it, but it's definitely relevant. In a broad sense, the shift towards a services-based economy is a type of "make-work" in the shadow of heavy automation in first agriculture then manufacturing. This is very much Parkinson's Law writ large: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law