>insofar as human happiness is somewhat intermingled with a sense of purpose in life, yes, jobs are a good thing. Well there might be some truth to that, but t

>insofar as human happiness is somewhat intermingled with a sense of purpose in life, yes, jobs are a good thing. Well there might be some truth to that, but the main reason people work is to get money. Its entirely possible we could support poor people without creating meaningless jobs. Typically that actually costs more than just distributing the money directly. >Um, the investment in Mars to date is substantially less than the investment in poverty. If you consider the military as a jobs program, or public infrastructure construction as a jobs program, then we spend a ton of money on poverty. I don't know what your point is. No I don't consider those jobs programs, and even if they were what does it matter? And no we haven't spent that much money on going to mars yet. >Are you countering my example by extending it? Yes, to show the absurdity of it. Obviously a bunch of people digging with spoons is ridiculous.