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I participate in the economy, I pay taxes, I don't break laws.
by webdood90 3y ago
I participate in the economy, I pay taxes, I don't break laws.
- jampekka 3y agoThat doesn't mean you're contributing, at least positively.
- pdonis 3y agoIt does if he has a job. Which he must since he says he pays taxes. Having a job means you are producing something that's of enough value to others that people will pay you for it. That's contributing to society.
- jampekka 3y agoPeople are paid for all sorts of things that are harmful to society.
- pdonis 3y agoHarmful according to whom?
- jampekka 3y agoBy themselves for example. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09500170231175771 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09500170231175...
- pdonis 3y agoThis study is showing that many people perceive their jobs to be useless, but it neither asks for nor studies any factual basis for their perceptions. The study just assumes that certain jobs are "more useless" than others and looks for correlations between people's perceptions and those assumptions. In other words, all this study really shows is that the jobs of the people who did the study are basically useless, since they are producing no information that is of actual value.