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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 26072559, member: 4626&quot;]Ever hear of the parable of the broken window?&nbsp; To make the story short, a kid breaks a window, and people argue what he did was a good thing because of all of the economic activity stimulated because of the need to fix the window.&nbsp; The reason why it&#039;s a fallacy is because if the window didn&#039;t need to be fixed, all the labor and resources used to fix the window could have been instead used for things more productive and beneficial.&nbsp; The town&#039;s economy is overall poorer by the cost of fixing the window.</p><p><br /></p><p>If people didn&#039;t have those jobs and tasks they could instead have jobs and tasks that are more productive and beneficial to both themselves and the economy as a whole.&nbsp; Because of lost opportunity costs, destruction, and in this case waste, are net negatives to the economy.&nbsp; Conversely eliminating or at least reducing waste is a net positive.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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