re: #175 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

the bulk of our economy is about marketing and selling things that are produced abroad

A very large fraction of our economy is the nonproductive effort of determining who is entitled to have these things—ascertaining if they have the right pieces of paper in their pocket or the right bits in a computer somewhere, preventing them from getting these things if they don’t, and detecting when they get these things if they’re not allowed to and punishing them for it. An absolute drain with nothing to show for it.