> There are a lot of smart people in the world but we really can't afford to work on silly things. Well, smart people's labor isn't your property to allocate.

> There are a lot of smart people in the world but we really can't afford to work on silly things. Well, smart people's labor isn't your property to allocate. Nor is it the property of "us." It belongs to those individuals. So it's not a question of what "we" can or cannot afford.