An interesting paradox: the world has much that needs doing, and many people who are overworked, underpaid, or both, and yet... the best job for a lot of people is “sit over there and try not to get in the way.” For whom “not helping” is the closest thing to praise they’ll get
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that's also a really hard job that most people aren't equipped to do properly
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Labor alocation is hard.
If you hire a 100 marginal workers you only have to make one mistake, hire one wrong person, and that person will destroy more value than was generated by the other 99.



