"Keynes once proposed that we could jump-start an economy by paying half the unemployed people to dig holes and the other half to fill them in.
"No one’s really tried that experiment, but we did just spend 150 years subsidizing our ancestors to dig hydrocarbons out of the ground. Now we’ll spend 200-300 years subsidizing our descendants to put them back in there."
https://locusmag.com/2020/07/cory-doctorow-full-employment/
Very good article!

