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Originally Posted by three_d_dave
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Don't underestimate the dignity in every job.
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I don't entirely disagree with your post, but if you want the workers to be able to take pride in their work, maybe they'd prefer to spend a couple hours really polishing the stadium above "par" rather than just picking up airplanes to get it back to "par". What you've got there is the
broken window fallacy: you're claiming that by making something dirty, you're employing someone and thus creating activity in the economy. But really, the global quality of life is higher if the dirtied/broken thing had remained clean in the first place. In this case, the cleaner's time could either be spent with his/her family or by cleaning the stadium to a higher standard.
Also, you say that "wouldn't they rather be cleaning planes than sticky goop: they still have to clean up all the sticky goop left by us as well. It's not like everyone said: "hey, let's toss planes
instead of drinking pop/sandwiches/candy/etc" that day.
Any solution to the paper airplane issue has to include cleanup. Whether that is banning them entirely or creating a reward system for cleaning them.