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Re:The program to build NASA’s moon rocket could double in p... by sp332 on Thursday October 11, 2018 @02:33PM (#18195929)
Now imagine if we paid those people to do something productive instead of wasting so much time. Heck what if we just gave them the money and let them work on whatever they wanted. It would still have a better payoff.
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Re:The program to build NASA’s moon rocket could double in p... by phkahler on Friday October 12, 2018 @08:18AM (#18200881)
The illusion of contributing value needs to be maintained or people will get angry at the freeloaders getting paid to do nothing. People building the US military machine are not doing nothing just because the output has no real value.
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