Producing Jobs

An economist visits China during the time of Mao.
Party officials show him a new dam being build by
thousands of workers with shovels.
Being an economist he asks: “Why don’t you use machines to do the job?”
One of the officials responds proudly: “But that would destroy jobs!”
“Oh, I thought you were building a dam. If it is jobs that you want,
why don’t you take the shovels away and give them spoons?”, the economist concludes.

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