Advocates of the space station say it will provide important benefits. But the promises are vague, even if chock full of noble-sounding humanitarian goals that seem beyond reproach. Nowhere is this claim substantiated. That kind of return would attract big-time money, money that would make Bill Gates blush. The reason is that individuals in society have other things they would rather do with the money.
Projects have a cost because factors of production are scarce.
The money to subsidize a project must come at the expense of the taxpayer and the sacrifice of other wants. The concept of a pyramid is a useful symbol for any number of government projects. Because of Garrett's analysis, I will never look on the pyramids with admiration and amazement. I will see only that they are the product of a tyrant and a symbol of the wasted effort emblematic of other public works projects.