Re:What If There Just Aren’t Enough Jobs to Go Around?
by sedachv on Thursday July 21, 2016 @06:54PM
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> Your link describes a facet of concrete production, which is hardly useless.
Here is the key part of the article: "critics claim this is merely a reversion to the LDP’s traditional policy of pork-barrel spending on concrete structures"
Concrete itself has no inherent value. In Japan concrete is being used to ruin the natural environment as part of government make-work schemes, with very little discernible material benefit:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15320645-500-forum-la...
https://welovecarbondioxide.wordpress.com/2015/10/15/japans-...
http://joshnjaxnjapan.blogspot.com/2010/03/concrete-rivers-o...
That's actually not the same thing. The parent comment's "have them go break large rocks into smaller rocks" carried the connotation of useless make-work. Your link describes a facet of concrete production, which is hardly useless.