Erm. Engineers, Software Developers, Doctors, and other assorted Professionals will always find a gainful employment and/or figure out alternatives for themselves.
“Writers” and “Artists” and “Journalists”... what, exactly, of value, in terms of wealth creation, do they provide ?
Like anyone who gets income from doing anything, they circulate money, which contributes to the economy. And if you work with your hands or are a businessperson you may not credit it, but there is something to be said for the life of the mind, and for having a group of people in any society who create art, whether it is the art of literature or the arts of painting, sculpture, architecture, music, or the higher decorative crafts.
As for journalists: well, we despise them as a breed because we tend to think of all journalists as being people who work for the New York Times. But the many thoughtful writers and bloggers whose work keeps the conservative dream and the concept of America alive are also journalists and are worthy of our respect. One might say that Victor Davis Hanson, Thomas Sowell, David Limbaugh, and the editors of the National Review are journalists. So journalists can be worthy of our respect and do valid work, too.
Not all of us have the health and strength to build roads. Some of us must work with our talents and minds.
I'm safe.
After you die at your local hospital, you might go to Heaven or you might go to Hell but, before you die, you will go through the Radiology Department first. .... And your estate will get a bill.
If you don't die, you will still go through the Radiology Department. .... And you will get a bill.
There is always the option of not knowing why you have lost 30 pounds of weight or why you have an agonizing pain but most people want to know and they want to know NOW! .... And they will get a bill.
“Writers” and “Artists” and “Journalists”... what, exactly, of value, in terms of wealth creation, do they provide ?
Those are "professionals"?
Not much, in an illiterate, declining society.
They edit and/or re-write the manuals and research papers produced by the engineers, software developers, and doctors so that these works of genius are coherent and comprehensible.
So long as there are engineers, there will be jobs for writers.
Maybe they’ll shoot them.
They keep the trainer class who show those of subpar intellect how to use tools such as broom, shovel, and spatula afloat.
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