That's where a transaction tax - the transfer of resources from the socially useless to the socially disadvantaged - comes in.

将无实际意义的社会资金转移给社会弱势群体，这才是交易税的意义所在。

youdao

There is no other clothing element in the male repertoire as socially symbolic and functionally useless as the tie.

在男性身上没有什么服饰配件能够像领带一样代表社会地位却没什么功能的。

youdao

It certainly must be socially useless to have so much lightning-fast yacking traveling at the speed of light.

FORBES: The Financial Transaction Tax Is Bad Business For Europe

His point was that much of the explosive growth in the trading of complex financial products - CDOs, ABSs, CDS, EFTs and so on, until we were all alphabetty crazy - may have been (in his words) socially useless.

BBC: How scary is a financial transactions tax?

Lord Turner has once again tried to put a sizeable bomb under the economic orthodoxy that has determined government and regulatory policies towards banks ( as I noted in my post this morning, a couple of years ago he suggested that a financial transaction tax might be a decent idea, and argued that some financial innovation and trading might well be "socially useless").

BBC: Bank lending 'should be controlled'