Lost My Nerves It seems that there are people who appear to have all the time in the world. Why do the before mentioned persons want to involve others in their leisure activities? Just because they have too much time? Could they possibly concentrate on each other? Finland has had problems to grow the economy for several years. Yet it appears that certain instances wish to increase the employment in low or non-productive activities. I do not think that we have a way around this issue: The only way to make the economy survive is to prefer high productivity roles and automate everything else. It is waste of money to employ people in roles that do not bring value added, especially the highly educated ones. If we do not automate, somebody other will. In situations, where we could start minimizing the future cost (by anticipating the future workload and invest on automation and high skill activities), the society decides to pay for involvement in lower skill activities although the demand has not yet even realized. Counting the future on branches that currently represent less than 1% or 2% of GDP and that mostly create the value added through domestic sales is not a viable solution. Not even, if the growth in these branches would be high. Neither is replacing high skilled jobs by employing people who are not educated in these particular activities. We should not do work for which there is no true demand. It is more likely find demand for activities that require knowledge and I assume finding the demand is easier to those who are familiar with these last mentioned activities. Low value added activities do not have the potential for covering the cost of the welfare. The demand that appears obvious is in many cases likely vanish. The future growth should be based on more sustainable activities. Currently I think that many of those who have the potential to provide high value added do not have means to operate fully (due to lack of resources, power to decide etc.). ​ Johanna Sandman Published: 3.10.2016 13:16