A Graph Nicely Illustrating the Changes in Work-a-day Activities in the US over Time
The prefrontal cortex dopamine-starvation thread continued (III)
Strictly speaking, if an occupation isn’t in the construction, manufacturing, agriculture (including forestry), mining (includes all the fossil and nuclear energy producers), or household work industries, it isn’t an occupation that produces anything directly that is useful over the long run — it is, instead, an occupation that provides an evanescent service.
As reported before, employment in any of the production industries is, on average, considerably more physically (not mention, mentally) demanding than employment in any of the service industries. Reportedly, the shift in the US economy from production industry employment dominance to service industry dominance is responsible for about 85% of the increase in American citizen obesity. Indeed, looking at the graph below, you can easily visualize the expansion of the American waistline following right along with the American expansion of the industrial girth of the services industries.
Not to put too fine point on it, the single most important production industry input that permitted this transition from more physically difficult production industry employment to much less physically demanding services industry employment are the fossil fuels produced by the mining industry — those same fossil fuels that many, if not most, modern services industry employees blame for all of their current climate fears and anxieties. Fossil fuels and the various large-scale, centralized technologies fueled by them (modern large-scale agriculture included) , are a direct substitute for the much more widely deployed human thought, care, and energy formerly used to accomplish the same purposes and ends.
Oh, what to do? Oh, what to do? See what happens when you can no longer think your way out of a paper bag?