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So what? If instead of building the world's biggest yacht, they paid them to dig and refill holes, from the perspective of someone 100 years from now, both wou
by kaibee 5y ago
So what? If instead of building the world's biggest yacht, they paid them to dig and refill holes, from the perspective of someone 100 years from now, both would be pretty much equally wasteful. Otoh, investing that into research, wouldn't be.
- refurb 5y agoNo, because there would be a yacht at the end of it. That has value.
- protomyth 5y agoNo. Humans need accomplishments and doing pointless work (dig and refill holes) is a drag on the soul no matter how much you pay. Look at all the programmers that get mad when doing dumb work. The yacht is a tangible item that will last and can be pointed to with pride by the workers. Pointless work damages us.