&quot;Destroying an Earth-threatening asteroid...&quot; But what asteroid ? That&#x27;s all the point, it&#x27;s ridiculous to care as much about a non-existing asteroid in the near feature than the plenty of dramatic problems that are causing damages for centuries.<p>&quot;Someone has to do the work&quot;, &quot;confiscating the fruits of the productive to give to the idle punishes the former and rewards the latter&quot;. 
That&#x27;s absolutely not what liberating work is about, and what you describe is a pretty narrow view of economics that we&#x27;re taught since childhood. Investigating a bit economy shows  it get way more complicated than that, just defining &quot;productive value&quot; is a very deep subject.  I don&#x27;t believe you and I are able to assess if an economic system is sustainable or not (reality shown even the best economists can&#x27;t), whereas scientist are pretty accurate about the low probability of an asteroid destroying earth in 2016.