>Except that we end up spending a vast amount of human effort doing work that fundamentally doesn't need to be done. Who decides what work, "needs to be done"?

>Except that we end up spending a vast amount of human effort doing work that fundamentally doesn't need to be done. Who decides what work, "needs to be done"? I suppose you could argue that activities that create the necessities needed to survive (food, shelter, clothing), "need to be done", but everything else is simply a matter of choice. Economic output is a subjective, contrived metric.