[chrisco255]

By that logic anything could be considered pointless. A parking lot attendant's job is useful so long as there is demand for the services they provide. It's arrogant to presume any job as "pointless". And at any rate the world isn't "perfect" whatever your definition of that is, which is far different than my definition, so it's important to accept reality as it is. Paid parking lots need security and to be maintained, just as any other business. Without that maintenance the lot falls to crime and decay. So long as the world is not "perfect" (forever) it's not pointless (as long as there's real demand for the services).

[hahaxdxd123]

You are being overly pedantic to the example he provides. Let's do a more classical example - should they government stimulate job growth in the glass and construction industries by smashing windows? No - the world doesn't become a better place even if there's a growth in GDP from the economic activity of increased glass making.

Some jobs simply produce more goods or intellectual property than others (or better facilitate such production). The main point here is it's not good for governments to misallocate resources by encouraging more ~0-production jobs for sake of low unemployment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

[chrisco255]

To your first question, of course not, but that does not mean a parking lot attendant's job is pointless. The need for maintenance and security of a parking lot is inescapable. Clearly doing destructive things is destructive. Maintenance and security are productive activities, though. Yes, in an imaginary Kumbaya world where things don't deteriorate or get dirty and no one takes advantage of unattended, unsupervised property, you could do without the maintenance and the security. But that world will never exist, will it? So it's not pointless and it's not destructive. In fact, without the maintenance and security, the productive asset in this case would not be able to exist to provide the service to those who need it.