Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by const_cast 313 days ago
Ive had this theory about the US economy for a while. There's mover, and makers. The movers just move money around, making nothing productive. The makers are what actually construct the world we live in and the services we use.

The US has a lot of movers, not enough makers. Our GDP is essentially propped up by fake jobs that do nothing. Of course we are a service economy, but a lot of this isn't even services, it's just move thing A to thing B then move it back and make money doing that. It would make sense if we're physically moving stuff - but we're not. We're just moving money back and forth.