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No. If a job is unnecessary then it shouldn't be done. The fact that people need to have jobs, even jobs which create no value, is a systemic failure.


I actually agree with you.

What I was asking was: if you change Cuban's argument from "If you want to see more jobs created – change patent laws" to "If you want to see more prosperity created – change patent laws", would you agree?


Oh I thought you meant, "Let's not legalize marijuana. Think of all the DEA agents that would lose their jobs!"

Yes I would agree. I think lawyers are generally pretty smart people and we're losing the prosperity they could be creating.




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