>>"If enough employment cannot be found to occupy the 25 persons in a
>>hundred upon work useful and profitable to the state, I see no
>>objection to encouraging employment which serves only for ornament or
>>amusement"

>Where'd you find this, over the doorway to the U.S. Congress?

>>So when everything that can be done to serve the state is done,
>>Cantillon thinks it harmless if any remaining labor goes to produce
>>things that give people pleasure.

>It's hard to tell absent context, but I think it may be worse.  Isn't
>he saying that if "productive work" on behalf of the State can't be
>found for those in its employ, then even "make-work" work is justified
>in being supported by the State?