I think it would be crazy to believe that 50% of people at Google do "no real work." Or if not crazy, definitely stupid. Why? First because it's a proposition

I think it would be crazy to believe that 50% of people at Google do "no real work." Or if not crazy, definitely stupid. Why? First because it's a proposition that doesn't have any fixed meaning. What counts as real work? Many work initiatives in tech are inherently speculative. If the speculation pans out, then the airhead VCs will call it "real-work" in retrospect. If it doesn't, then they condemn it as fake work. Even Theranos, which was a scam, spent a lot of money TRYING to be more than a scam. They failed, but it was real work to try to make her dumb idea a reality. VCs loved Theranos, didn't they? The other thing that bothers me about this is the idea that investors should be given their money back instead of Google, you know, trying to use that money to make their company more successful. Besides all that, there is a value to employing lots of tech people even if you aren't having them do very much. Why, you ask? Because if you don't employ tech people, then the upper working class collapses even more than it already has. This is not good for society. Somehow rich people must be made to understand what rich people in the late Roman Empire never understood until the Visigoths, Vandals, and Huns, wiped them out: that naked self interest without any civic responsibility leads to the collapse of the very systems that protect you.