Funny somebody else who is labor oriented might welcome any kind of "job creation program" and post-1970 people would be just as likely to describe luxury as a waste of natural resources.
I can say I was thoroughly cured of the belief in the labor theory of value and Marxist eschatology after I spent a summer closely reading the works of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Harman
a writer and socialist activist who is buried a few yards from Karl Marx.