Is Your Job As Worthless As You Are?

“Our jobs are probably not make-work handed to us by crafty overlords. But they may be something more insidious — an elaborate kind of wealth redistribution system, masquerading as value-creating economic activity, sustained and powered by all the economy’s loopholes and flaws that Econ 101 barely mentions. If that’s the case, then we really ought to ask ourselves: Why are we working so hard, instead of collecting checks to sit on a beach?”