Ok so tell me more about how building LAX was "make work".
>Wouldn't they use more automation to build roads and airports?
So - if we're looking at infrastructure - there are fewer people fixing potholes these days.
Are potholes currently being fixed more efficiently thanks to more sophisticated automation or are they just not being fixed?
No, I'm asking if that's what you're proposing for the 21st century. What projects would you have be initiated that would fill the gap of some roughly 60% of unemployment, in the case of most cities on that map?
* Other forms of public transport
* Green energy infrastructure - wind/solar farms and the smart grids to support them
* Fixing roads, bridges and dams (all currently neglected).
* Building community centers and schools
* Caring for the elderly and infirm
There's a curiously high number of people who declare the jobs program that built LAX an obvious example of make work yet defend silicon vallley's silly startups and bitcoin mining (the purest example of make work) as "socially" useful merely because they were funded with private dollars.