There is no chance that the 100 employese making the website would have been making houses, shoes, food, medicine, etc., because they wouldn't have the skills t

There is no chance that the 100 employese making the website would have been making houses, shoes, food, medicine, etc., because they wouldn't have the skills to do any of that. The alternative to working for government making a useful website that would be productively used by millions of their fellow citizens is working for yet another "startup" making Yet Another Pointless Social Media or AI scam with no revenue model beyond getting acquired by a bigger company.