People have paid a company $40,000 to dig a giant hole for no reason — and the money is still pouring in
Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the ground for as long as people are willing to pay for it.
This is practically an economical-political-activist statement that both David Graeber ("Bullshit jobs") and Friedrich Hayek (Misallocation of resources) could get behind, as diverse as they are. Free market supporters would file this under typical Keynesianism, although Keynes himself also predicted back in the 1930s that we could or should work only 15 hours per week by the year 2000. But either way, another fine example for Frédéric Bastiat's "Parable of the broken window".