That\u2019s the opinion of superstar marketer Perry Marshall, and here\u2019s how he calculated that number:<\/p>\n
Start with about 300 million people in the United States.<\/p>\n
Consider that half of them are retired or in school or on welfare, a fourth are taking care of the retired ones and the ones in school, you’ve got 75 million left.<\/p>\n
But 29 million work for the federal government which means there’s only 46 million left to bring home the bacon.<\/p>\n
Then there’s the 15 million who work for the local government, so they’re only marginally more worthwhile than the feds.<\/p>\n
We’re down to 31 million now.<\/p>\n
80% of the 31 million are either lazy, apathetic, and mostly unproductive, or they’re busy undoing the damage done by the incompetents every day.<\/p>\n
So in fact there’s only six million people doing real, actual, productive, innovative hard work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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