One of my favorite wastes of money happens to be turning old shipping containers into low-income housing units. Yes that's right, just like in Snow Crash. I'm sure there's nothing more poor people want then to live in then small metal boxes built with government money. Well, I'm sure there's a lot of things people stuck with the label "poor" want. Thankfully, because of the high level of income mobility we have, people rarely stay in the "government metal box" category too long.
How long until these become mold-infested and abandoned, only to be squatted in by people like Hiro and Vitaly?
Next time a round of stimulus comes around, I'm holding a contest for the craziest thing that it gets spent on. I'm only half-joking about setting up a random government project generator and seeing how many it gets right. You might be surprised. Then again, you might not, cynical folks that you are.
