You're saying that just because you don't know the purpose, there must be no useful purpose. > even with my most cynical interpretations Of course if you're t

You're saying that just because you don't know the purpose, there must be no useful purpose. > even with my most cynical interpretations Of course if you're thinking cynically, you won't come up with anything good. Anyway, the definition is stupid, it says "or become dissipated" which is probably meant to refer to waste energy from a machine but without that context you could consider social welfare spending to be dissipation of money, so the most efficient way for the government to spend would be on huge concentrated projects.