dcdanko

Phage would be useful but bacteria are likely to be able to resist engineered phage as well.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23819105

So the article is a moral tirade against all night pizza delivery?

He makes some good points about how certain jobs are more wasteful in a pure economic sense but he jumps to quickly to denigrating a large swath of modern jobs.

'It’s not entirely clear how humanity would suffer were all private equity CEOs, lobbyists, PR researchers, actuaries, telemarketers, bailiffs or legal consultants to similarly vanish'

Best cases: - Private equity CEOs buy out companies and get rid of the pointless jobs this article rails against - Lobbyists help inform politicians about the impacts of complicated laws - Actuaries make insurance more efficient and affordable - Telemarketers.... yeah.... - Bailiffs help to enforce rule of law - Legal consultants can help companies to be more efficient

There are huge negatives to all of these jobs but it's not fair simply to write them off as wasteful and unimportant.