"MM" wrote in message
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Except we'll have wasted £3bn on getting nowhere...

Ah, not nowhere. All that hardware to be manufactured by people making a
living, ditto designers, ditto software, ditto operators, dittor
enforcers,
ditto card makers, ditto ink... oh I can't be bothered. £3bn doesn't just
go
nowhere, it's spent on things and services, all of which keep the world
busy
and what goes round comes round.

This is a completely risible argument. Why then don't we just spend
the money on doing exactly that? Employ an army of workers and pay
them money from the taxpayer to the tune of £3bn so that they all
'earn' a living! It'd keep the world busy, wouldn't it? One group of
workers could design something, another group could put it into
production, yet another would sort out marketing and sales,
warehousemen would buy new forklift trucks, new roads would be
constructed to cope with the demand, and before long, there wouldn't
be enough space to accommodate all the extra staff and their families,
and attempts would have to be mounted in order to secure greater
living space.

It's done all the time.

What do we really NEED?

Certainly not most of the things we buy.

Mary

MM