What are the professions most beneficial and detrimental to mankind? (employee, highest)
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Drug cartel employees? Career criminals? Meth cooks? Moonshiners? Seems like there are a few worse than "stock brokers". As a matter of fact in this day and age "stock brokers" are fading away anyhow.
Beneficial: Trash collector's
perhaps not the most beneficial but since no one had mentioned them already, i felt that I would. My dad told me a long time ago "What would the world look like without garbage men?" No place I would want to live!
Detrimental: Lobbyist. I think lobbyist should have to be trash collector's for a year, it might give them a better view on life. Not saying all lobbyist are bad, just not sure what good they do society...
If the OP is simplistic enough to believe in "mankind", "humanity", "society", or whatever the do-ggoders want to call it, and that there is some over-riding "greater common good" for which an approved and supposedly-enlightened clique should speak, then (s)he is sowing the seeds of Fascism.
And the scary part is that there apparently a lot of wannabees here who are willing to take the bait in return for the privilege of sitting in judgment.
Beneficial: Too many to name. Most people who get up, go to work, and to contribute towards society have my respect.
Detrimental: Many politicians, lobbyist, some lawyers... There are few professions that are wholly detrimental. Their cumulative impact can be negative however.
Detrimental: those telemarketers that call during dinner to try to sell you things you don't want. Ditto the charities that do this. It makes me feel a lot less than generous when they call me.
I agree that Multi-level marketers are the winners for most detrimental. *shudders*
Edited to add: How could I forget the super creepy scammers. I have gotten a few calls from a guy who pretends he's from Windows and is calling about my computer. I also got a really creepy threatening email pretending to be from the IRS. I looked up the IRS online and it was a different number than the email. I called the number in the email and a guy immediately answered "Internal Revenue Service." HAHA seriously, I'm to believe I call the IRS and a human picks up the phone immediately. This one made me so mad I reported it to my ISP and the IRS.
Happily, I recently moved to a new area code and got a new phone number. It's been a lot quieter so far. *knocks on wood*
Detrimental: The dregs of the advertising world, such as spammers and telemarketers. Also, the majority of lawyers. In both cases we need some people to do these jobs, but really there are far too many lawyers and people showering us with ads, and their effect is purely negative. If both professions were slashed by 75 percent the country would be a better place.
I don't know about beneficial but I'd imagine any job where you can do what you want to do. Especially if it involves expressing your creativity, and having some power and independence.
Their are several that are detrimental. Some that come to mind are:
Restaurant jobs- these are just bad environments where people act like kids in high school and people are incredibly shallow.
No, I made it up, but if Bill O'Reilly wants to use it, that's fine with me. Do you disagree with it?
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