Tim Dillon
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If you don't give people something to do, which is why I'm a huge fan of office work, I'm a big fan of menial tasks, I'm a big fan of pretend work, and that's what all these people are doing.
I did an episode a while ago where I defended the office life, the life that millennials bemoan because it's not exciting enough and it doesn't inspire them.
That pointless life of shuffling around an office,
reading reports, making recommendations that completely useless life is under threat in a way like it's never been before.
It's under attack.
It's under attack.
And if you don't find something for these people to do, we're going to have a major problem.
People need to think they're doing... No one's really doing anything for the most part.
A lot of people aren't.
But they need to think they're doing something.
because if they don't have some kind of purpose, and again, we're not talking about the fellowship of the ring here in terms of purpose.
They don't need to go to Mordor to throw the thing into a volcano or to Mount Doom.
We're just talking about going to a strip mall in Minneapolis and sitting in a debt collection office and threatening poor people.
Someone needs to go to a debt collection office in Minneapolis and threaten poor people and call them and tell them that they have to make a minimum payment.
They have to.
Do it on the phone right now.
Do it on the phone right now.
That has to still be a job.
That has to still be a job.
Telemarketing call centers have to still be a job.