Before reading the post: I’ve heard somewhere that roughly 25-30% of the US workforce is self-employed, so based on that I’d be surprised if much more than a third of working Americans work in moral mazes. On the flip side, any state or federal government job is presumably a maze job, and presumably almost-all of the Fortune 500 have >10k employees each, so I’d be surprised if much less than than 20% of working Americans work in moral mazes.
After reading the post: there are not 340M workers in the US. Even the whole population isn’t quite that large (though very close), and labor force participation rate is something like 60%. So the 1k-199k bucket estimate is off by at least a factor of 2. I applaud the effort, but don’t think I can update much from this data.
Before reading the post: I’ve heard somewhere that roughly 25-30% of the US workforce is self-employed, so based on that I’d be surprised if much more than a third of working Americans work in moral mazes. On the flip side, any state or federal government job is presumably a maze job, and presumably almost-all of the Fortune 500 have >10k employees each, so I’d be surprised if much less than than 20% of working Americans work in moral mazes.
After reading the post: there are not 340M workers in the US. Even the whole population isn’t quite that large (though very close), and labor force participation rate is something like 60%. So the 1k-199k bucket estimate is off by at least a factor of 2. I applaud the effort, but don’t think I can update much from this data.