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Medicine? Most of it is just paying attention to the sick, and trying to help them. Sure, medical researchers are out there trying to solve new problems, but most nurses and doctors working with the public are just applying their attention and care.
Education is a field where, arguably, research has made the field worse, not better. Academic education programs seems to be a black hole of mediocre intellects pondering problems that are only problems for themselves, and then forcing their half-baked solutions on the actual teachers in the field - most of whom need, more than anything, the time and energy to really pay attention to their students.
Law and government - sure, directing national policy is a realm for the intellect, but helping people get their drivers license, ensuring fair and respectable legal representation, and police work are about paying attention, being there, and caring how things go.
Cooking, crafting, massage, hair/nail/beauty care, repair and renovation, and a hundred more that aren't coming to mind - all of these are key services that dramatically improve the quality of life for people around them, and thus contribute greatly to human wealth, and all of them are based largely on attention and care.
damn straight... :) 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
In addition to promoting employment in system-critical and labor-intensive sectors, this would also be a powerfully anti-cyclical stimulus program for the whole economy, as there would be a large sector of fairly low-income people who would keep their jobs, and keep pumping money into the regular economy, despite the overall economic situation, and despite any decline in tax revenue.
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