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posted by [identity profile] drdoug.livejournal.com at 07:36pm on 09/07/2007
Indeed! Just like Keynes' famous idea about the Treasury stimulating the economy by burying used banknotes in landfills and getting private enterprise to tender for the right to dig them up again. And Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat argument about thievery actually being a huge benefit to society. In my head it's also related to Flanders and Swann's The Gas Man Cometh ("It all makes work for the working man to do ...") but I think that's making a slightly different point.
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