A few problems: 1. Lots of basic scientific research historically has not panned out. Does that mean that scientific research is somehow intrinsically unvaluab

A few problems: 1. Lots of basic scientific research historically has not panned out. Does that mean that scientific research is somehow intrinsically unvaluable? To me, it seems not. There are lots of jobs out there that end up not themselves being valuable, but because society tried lots of different things some of them end up being valuable. 2. "To the ancient Greeks, he claims, you were either a slave and your whole life was owned, or you sold a good" - there certainly were paid laborers in Ancient Greece. See eg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_drachma#Value https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_drachma#Value - a drachma was roughly a day's wage. 3. Is the claim people make that the existence of unnecessary jobs is somehow a unique problem to Corporations in Capitalism? Are there not unnecessary jobs in socialist of communist societies? Are there not unnecessary jobs in government? Arguably, governments today "are less and less about making, building, fixing, or maintaining things, and more and more about political processes of appropriating, distributing and allocating money and resources" - why the fixation on corporations?