Comment by AlotOfReading
4 hours ago
This is a thinly disguised broken window parable.
If everyone goes around mowing lawns for each other, the economy is richer in lawn mowing at the expense of all the other things that would have been funded had everyone mowed their own lawns and purchased different services instead.
I am confused with this, if "everyone mowed their own lawns" then the net result will be exactly the same, everyone will be busy the same and not poorer, just without money movement.
look at the broken window parable as he mentioned it might help understand the rest of his comment
Broken window is different from the mowing lawns hypothetical