It seems off because the jobs just a byproduct of the investment, not the end goal. i.e. Say I invest $10M to make a precision machine shop and I employing 5 m

It seems off because the jobs just a byproduct of the investment, not the end goal. i.e. Say I invest $10M to make a precision machine shop and I employing 5 machinists, as a crude example. Here my goal was to make a machine shop capable of producing precision parts, not to spend $2M/job.