Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

Jobs (writ large) are scripts which society creates which allow people to semi-conveniently create a lot more legible value than they’d be able to create in the absence of the script. They come from the same place scripts always come from: someone hacks them out of the ether.

The supply as time goes to infinity is bounded only by the human imagination and desires; the supply at any moment in time bears more resemblance to the way companies do headcount planning than to that.

This is the paradox of politicians promising to create jobs. Jobs aren't things that exist and we have to fight over. They're just a manifestation of needs. Someone needs a cleaner building, bam, job. Someone needs an application, job. Someone needs their car fixed, job.

Meh... only useful if the needer could actually afford to hire somebody to do the job at a market-clearing wage/price. Car broke, but I'm broke too? No job.

This seems like the questions If someone wants to work and isn't able to because of no job then their human capital instantly spoils. Same if they have a job that is under-productive Jobs are way to convert human capital that's spoiling now into capital stored

But jobs are just formulas for trade of labour You get more jobs by either increasing the demand on the other side of the trade formula, increasing the constrained supply of the job side of the formula, or inventing new formulas I think those are all the sources