It just goes to show you how stupid people at the top really are.

They don’t understand scale at all, so they propose something like this, someone goes “uh… Guys? Know those banners they fly at the beach? Those are like the size of a neighborhood road, and the plane flies low so you can read it. You’re talking about building megastructures”

And then they just… Never really acknowledge that the math doesn’t math. They just keep going around proposing it, because it’s this cool idea they came up with all on their own and definitely wasn’t part of a cautionary sci-fi tale