> Somebody joked that it would be better if we just paid them that much to do nothing. I know this is in jest, but in economics there's this concept called "in

> Somebody joked that it would be better if we just paid them that much to do nothing. I know this is in jest, but in economics there's this concept called "induced demand" that comes to mind. "Public extortion" would be an interesting challenge, as it would be difficult to solve the problem of "Hey why don't you also pay ME to do nothing too?"