I think "fake work" seems a reasonable phrase to describe what a lot of the mouse-moving class do, or at least it's difficult to connect it to real world value

I think "fake work" seems a reasonable phrase to describe what a lot of the mouse-moving class do, or at least it's difficult to connect it to real world value - and I wouldn't necessarily exclude the digital workers looking in here at a remove from the redundancies. When you consider the mental and physical energy and time it takes to produce the life of relevant comfort and safety of the average Western digital worker against the raw materials and environment that life is extracted and fashioned from (compared, say, to the prospect of surviving against nature on your wits and bodily power alone or the plight of a penniless war refugee), can you honestly say with a straight face: "yes, I deserve that"? We - most of us - live off the value provided us from the great good fortune of having been born in to a society fashioned and built over hundreds of years; it seems to me that provides the bulk of what we "earn" as individuals, and particularly so in the digital economies.