The same thing happens when companies in other competitive industries install computer systems to improve customer service. Their suppliers are innovation-driven, competing fiercely to develop better, cheaper products. They even use high-tech materials. This is not a random distortion. It, too, has a lot to teach about both economic trends and economic discourse.
Nail salons are girl stuff.
Most of the people who work in them are women, as are almost all their customers. Such businesses are too embarrassing to mention. When Jeremy Rifkin concludes The End of Work by calling for punitive taxes on the booming entertainment business, he looks ridiculous. Having discovered a frivolous industry that is actually creating a lot of jobs, he demands that we crush it. And he confuses his personal tastes with economic reality.