&quot;That prospect differs from a &quot;job guarantee&quot; precisely where that stuff is not sufficiently useful. In the margin there, I object to paying people to take time and effort away from places they may find more value, to do things that are of minimal value, in the name of &quot;dignity.&quot; In fact, I think paying for useless work is destructive of precisely that dignity (along with a pile of economic value).&quot;<p>So you are saying, in essence, that people&#x27;s art projects, poetry and one person startups and time spent watching daytime TV are, <i>on average</i>, more useful than projects like the lincoln tunnel, schools, hospitals and bridges and you object to resources being taken from one to build the other?