I can tell you as an urbanite that in the cities there's a lack of real work.

Things changed several decades ago where you only had to be able bodied to able minded.

Except half the work done in cities requiring brain work is all over the place. Massive amounts of it is complete nonsense. Over half the people working in office jobs don't really know what it is they actually do to really contribute to any kind of wealth creation.

Whatever they do is almost never material, yet the desire for material wealth is overwhelming.

Intellect is often existential and it's very hard to truly compare people nor know what's actually required for a job. Insecurity about intellect is nearly universal. It's often unclear how good you really need to be and everyone looks for the best or tries to measure up to the best.

If you take a dozen urbanites more than half of them will be pseudo-intellectuals. You'll be lucky to find one intellectual among them. Generally speaking it appears to be job creation.

A dozen pseudo-intellectuals are paid to do nothing all day but to make a mess or produce huge amounts of sophistry while the real intellectuals spend their entire lives bogged down trying to keep up and clean up all the mess being made.

Most cities would be more productive if half the people were paid to do nothing and this is probably the only good argument for certain kinds of socialism I've ever heard (but I think they should have their tubes tied as part of the deal).

The kind of demand and expectation people are trying to live up to intellectually is above the average capability of a typical person.

Because it's often never clear what the requirements are you have a lot of people that are very practised in just going further and further not knowing when to stop or when it is enough. Other people have a different mentality which is just do the minimum and see what flies. If failure is not permitted that can be difficult to adopt.

I can tell you as an urbanite that in the cities there's a lack of real work.

Things changed several decades ago where you only had to be able bodied to able minded.

Except half the work done in cities requiring brain work is all over the place. Massive amounts of it is complete nonsense. Over half the people working in office jobs don't really know what it is they actually do to really contribute to any kind of wealth creation.

Whatever they do is almost never material, yet the desire for material wealth is overwhelming.

Intellect is often existential and it's very hard to truly compare people nor know what's actually required for a job. Insecurity about intellect is nearly universal. It's often unclear how good you really need to be and everyone looks for the best or tries to measure up to the best.

If you take a dozen urbanites more than half of them will be pseudo-intellectuals. You'll be lucky to find one intellectual among them. Generally speaking it appears to be job creation.

A dozen pseudo-intellectuals are paid to do nothing all day but to make a mess or produce huge amounts of sophistry while the real intellectuals spend their entire lives bogged down trying to keep up and clean up all the mess being made.

Most cities would be more productive if half the people were paid to do nothing and this is probably the only good argument for certain kinds of socialism I've ever heard (but I think they should have their tubes tied as part of the deal).

The kind of demand and expectation people are trying to live up to intellectually is above the average capability of a typical person.

Because it's often never clear what the requirements are you have a lot of people that are very practised in just going further and further not knowing when to stop or when it is enough. Other people have a different mentality which is just do the minimum and see what flies.

I can tell you as an urbanite that in the cities there's a lack of real work.

Things changed several decades ago where you only had to be able bodied to able minded.

Except half the work done in cities requiring brain work is all over the place. Massive amounts of it is complete nonsense. Over half the people working in office jobs don't really know what it is they actually do to really contribute to any kind of wealth creation.

Whatever they do is almost never material, yet the desire for material wealth is overwhelming.

Intellect is often existential and it's very hard to truly compare people nor know what's actually required for a job. Insecurity about intellect is nearly universal. It's often unclear how good you really need to be and everyone looks for the best or tries to measure up to the best.

If you take a dozen urbanites more than half of them will be pseudo-intellectuals. You'll be lucky to find one intellectual among them. Generally speaking it appears to be job creation.

A dozen pseudo-intellectuals are paid to do nothing all day but to make a mess or produce huge amounts of sophistry while the real intellectuals spend their entire lives bogged down trying to keep up and clean up all the mess being made.

Most cities would be more productive if half the people were paid to do nothing and this is probably the only good argument for certain kinds of socialism I've ever heard (but I think they should have their tubes tied as part of the deal).

The kind of demand and expectation people are trying to live up to intellectually is above the average capability of a typical person.