> As far as I can tell, the majority of people in the world have jobs 
> like... Telemarketing. Driving trucks. Working in an office doing filing. 
> Fitting central heating systems. Hotel receptionists.

Yes, the majority of people do a wide variety of jobs :-)

> None of these seem to require knowledge of calculus. In fact, jobs that 
> *do* require such knowledge are seemingly so absurdly rare that I almost 
> find it difficult to believe they exist.

I'd say most Chartered Engineers would have used calculus in their job at 
some point or another, there's 180000 of them in the UK.  Call that absurdly 
rare if you want.

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