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by jon_elbrook 2211 days ago
>You could say that none of it was "wasted", people earned their salary there (I assume) and learned something,

ah, the good ole broken windows fallacy strikes again.

Not like if we had spent that 2.4B on something else, those people who worked on that something else wouldnt learn anything, or earned any salary.