There are a lot of well-paid people in the modern economy who produce nothing (see “The Overclass“). From Good Citizen at thegoodcitizen.live:
Unessential Workers
Among the many scams that surfaced during the hoax pandemic—right alongside “trust the science,” Fauci’s sainthood, the polite fiction that western medicine was ever about healing, or that your average nurse or doctor wouldn’t euthanize grandma for a bonus paycheck—was one revelation no one wanted to say out loud: the vast majority of non-specialized, non-trade workers simply don’t do real work.
They click things.
They Slack.
They Zoom.
They “circle back” and “follow up” in emails.
They hold meetings to discuss holding future meetings.
For over a decade, they’ve existed as economic seat-fillers—propping up employment stats just enough to stave off recession, while markets pumped equities and asset and fiat inflation quietly gutted living standards by 20% a year, leaving wages in the dust. Those controlling the levers of power caused just enough pain to avoid a revolution, while feeding just enough credit to keep the masses chained to unsustainable debt until the great financial reset could be engineered via the usual order-ab-chao from the scripted problem-reaction-solution playbook. (You are here.)
Lockdowns exposed this class of unessential workers overnight. Millions of pajama-clad midwits became productivity influencers. TikTok was filled with “day in the life” videos of remote employees making coffee, lighting candles, journaling, brushing their teeth, doing pilates, opening their laptop to pretend to type something important, closing their computer to meditate beneath a Jacaranda tree, and then “taking a few Zoom calls” before happy hour. The highlight of their workdays was flexing from the white sandy beaches of Tulum, doing warrior crescent pose in front of the setting sun for their instashame followers.
The terrifying part? Nobody noticed the difference. Nothing happened to economic output or labor efficiency. These people proved to be nonessential workers, effectively ghosts earning a paycheck as economic units contributing to GDP by doing what all obedient units do in the Empire of conspicuous consumption—purchasing stupid shit they don’t need that will end up on a future episode of storage wars after their bankruptcy.
Reading about Indiana U. not giving due process to a Chinese professor who has lived here for decades, terminated due to not disclosing CCP/PRC grant.
May the SCROTUS be with you?