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Your rejoinder is valid, but I don't think the problem at this point is jobs that don't need to be done. I think the problem is jobs that do things that should not be done.

Doctors' offices employ people whose only purpose is to be experts at navigating the byzantine insurance system. Arguing that these jobs should be preserved is the broken window fallacy. These jobs do not have real functional value. They are compensating for something that is destroying value.

Even worse is when it's not even someone's job, as in the case of individual people fighting with their insurance company to get paid what they're owed.

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I agree 100%. Not all BS jobs are good BS jobs. The ideal BS jobs are ones that do something productive that has a positive influence. The worst kind are the ones that are rent-seeking.

I wish that people in this country could get over the idea that 'jobs programs' are a bad thing. Some of the best BS jobs are artificially created, the ones that capitalism produces naturally tend to be of the rent-seeking variety.