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0 pointsJimmy9y ago0 comments

I said "intellectually intensive", not "meaningful".

The majority of people throughout history worked manual labor jobs that weren't intellectually intensive, but they were often quite necessary.

>If you think the gov makes all the useless and pointless paper pushing jobs, you have never been in a large company.

I'm currently employed at a large company doing mostly pointless work, so I'm not sure where you got this assumption from.

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mempko9y ago

In Adam Smith's wealth of nations he talks about division of labor and how it makes people "as stupid as a creature can be". I would argue the work a farmer and people in tribal societies do is more intellectually stimulating and varied than in the modern world. Unless for a select few engineering jobs, we mostly damn people to do the same narrow set of tasks every day.

Also about the gov bit. I was talking to the larger HN readers than just you. Sounds like you know exactly what I am talking about.

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