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I certainly didn't read all eleventy billion replies, but it is the same as a grand master chess player guy right? I would also argue that a some financial people don't contribute to society either. Redistributing money doesn't count.

So in other words I don't think it contributes, however neither do other jobs that people deem 'acceptable.'

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I agree

What I argued in this thread was even though they don't contribute in the normal sense, they are still income producing jobs. And whether or not those income producing jobs don't "contribute" in terms of adding a quatifiable value to society, society is still better off having these income producing jobs than not.


Nonproductive jobs in the traditional sense make up so many job descriptions in America that it would be extremely silly to say America is better off not having them. America is better off having jobs than not having jobs, whether or not those jobs contribute or not is irrelevant.

Society would become a better place if all the unemployed people in America suddenly took up "nonproductive" / "noncontributing" jobs.