…BS jobs not about the market but control and power over people? Well, the first person to actually make that argument was George Orwell. He's a very explicit leader. I said yes in the original essay, and a lot of people, of course, instantly accused me…

…said yes in the original essay, and a lot of people, of course, instantly accused me of being a paranoid conspiracy theory guy. But Orwell said it a lot more strongly than I did. Back in 1943, he said, a lot of useless employment is just the fear of…

…BS jobs not about the market but control and power over people? Well, the first person to actually make that argument was George Orwell. He's a very explicit leader. I said yes in the original essay, and a lot of people, of course, instantly accused me…

…said yes in the original essay, and a lot of people, of course, instantly accused me of being a paranoid conspiracy theory guy. But Orwell said it a lot more strongly than I did. Back in 1943, he said, a lot of useless employment is just the fear of…

…BS jobs not about the market but control and power over people? Well, the first person to actually make that argument was George Orwell. He said it very explicitly. I said yes in the original essay, and a lot of people, of course, instantly accused me…

…said yes in the original essay, and a lot of people, of course, instantly accused me of being a paranoid conspiracy theory guy. But Orwell said it a lot more strongly than I did. Back in 1943, he said, a lot of useless employment is just the fear of…

…yeah. So it's the idea of spying on. Can I just, I've just got to address this thing, which always comes up when George Orwell had the same problem. When you say anything positive about the Middle Ages, someone says everyone died at 35. Can I just put…

…to redistribute the available leisure hours. And it seemed to me that this situation was extraordinarily convenient politically. As George Orwell put it, a population busy working even at completely useless occupations doesn't have time to do much else. So…