I agree. When he started talking about how capitalism shouldn't create these BS jobs, I assumed a reasoned economic argument was coming. Then this passage. It's a cabal of elites who have decided to spend their own money occupying the masses. What a joke. He could have just as convincingly claimed it was space aliens creating the jobs.
Take something everyone thinks and talks about (Like all childish thought games) put a crappy explanation on it and people buy in.
> The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger
Seriously... and man didn't land on the moon.
Conspiracy's happen, but it's about broken processes and complicated feedback.
This is a interesting topic, it's a real shame people are fooled so easily by essays like this.