>This is literally throwing away money and human effort Yes, that is correct. This is essentially what Keynes, et al, suggested as reasonable stimulus during d

>This is literally throwing away money and human effort Yes, that is correct. This is essentially what Keynes, et al, suggested as reasonable stimulus during difficult times (although they used the example of digging a ditch and filling it in again, a job which has the benefit of getting people to exercise out of doors!) >ignores all the real problems that that the hypothetical person could be tackling. There are large classes of problems that cannot be touched by the population at large. War is literally the only human endeavor where more hands are almost always better (only almost because hands are attached to mouths which must be fed). I'd love it if millions of people worked at SpaceX, but what would they do? What could they do?