It sometimes feels that more and more economic activity (in the USK is totally pointless, or zero sum like advertising. Suppose this is true, heterodox as it ma

It sometimes feels that more and more economic activity (in the USK is totally pointless, or zero sum like advertising. Suppose this is true, heterodox as it may be. Certainly as a programmer consultant it seems that so much technology work is pointless searching for a profit and problem, never meeting a pre-existing demand. In such a low stakes weird economy, it's really hard to compete because nobody needs anything. For your corporate desk worker, keeping the existing deal is inertia while changing it is work and career risk. So rather than effort ~ dMoney, effort ~ d^2Money. That's alread explanes so much even before saying deals are corrupt steak dinner affairs or whatever. The right is correct in saying that the things people really need, housing food and healthcare, are super regulated. But the left right in that land use and especially ealthcare are totally unsuited for a free market anyways. (Though LVT is more powerful and magical than any healthcare rule.)