Deepti says only people who MAKE something do real work — farmers, carpenters, labourers
Deepti says only people who MAKE something do real work — farmers, carpenters, labourers. Doctors, drivers and teachers just talk or drive people around, so they are not doing real economic work. Is Deepti right?
Who do you think is right? Pick one.
The answer: No, services are just as real a kind of work
Why
Deepti's rule feels natural because a made object is something you can hold — a chair, a sack of wheat — while a service disappears the moment it's done, which can make it feel less solid or less 'real'. But the economy has always split work into three genuine kinds, not two: the primary sector uses nature directly, the secondary sector makes new things from raw materials, and the tertiary sector provides SERVICES — and a service is real economic work precisely because someone needed it and paid for it, exactly like a made object. A sick person needs a doctor's actual skill, not a doctor's product; a student needs a teacher's actual explanation. Test: try running a village with only farmers and carpenters and no doctors, drivers or teachers — the farmers would have nowhere to sell their grain and no one to treat them when ill, because a society needs services just as much as goods. No, services are just as real a kind of work: the tertiary sector is not lesser work, it is a different and equally necessary kind, and it usually employs more people than the other two put together in a growing economy.
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