"But that's already true," John said. "How is this different from the economics that already exists?"

They all scoffed at once, Marina most persistently:

there's all kinds of phantom work! Unreal values assigned to most of the jobs on Earth! The entire transnational executive class does nothing a computer couldn't do, and there are whole categories of parasitical jobs that add nothing to the system by an ecologic accounting. Advertising, stock brokerage, the whole apparatus for making money only from the manipulation of money -- that is not only wasteful but corrupting, as all meaningful money values get distorted in such manipulation." She waved a hand in disgust.

— Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, Kim Stanley Robinson (Mars (1)) (Page 299)