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Don't let anybody tell you that corporations and businesses create jobs.

EvaPeron said:
But also, without jobs individuals / others can't create demand. You've got to have money to create a demand and you've got to have a job to earn money. And, often it is the product that creates the demand, not the demand that always creates the product. ie: I didn't know to demand a cell phone until someone a long while back or someones thought to create it.
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But you wished you had a portable, better way to communicate. We went from smoke signals to pigeons, to wire, to radios, phones, phone booths on every other corner, to car phones and beepers, to cell phones.
 
Aberration said:
It worked for Apple. It worked for Intel. It worked for the kid who deep fried Twinkies.


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This.....in no way at all...addresses anything in the post you quoted.
 
KLATTU said:
Who said that scarey stoopid sh$t?

any gueeses????
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Really. Right now I work for a corporate that has 4,500 employees - 3,000 of those in the United States. Previously I worked for a corporation that employed 135,000 people - about 70,000 of those in the United States. Those weren't real jobs filled by real people? News to me.
 
Gaius46 said:
Really. Right now I work for a corporate that has 4,500 employees - 3,000 of those in the United States. Previously I worked for a corporation that employed 135,000 people - about 70,000 of those in the United States. Those weren't real jobs filled by real people? News to me.
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Well,those people who have those business , they didn't build that . LOL


Between the OP and that little nugget, hard to say which is most economically pig ignorant.
And explains why one called the other the most qualified candidate ever . { GUFFAW}
 
KevinKohler said:
Which is fine. Because I think it's broken into three things. Demand, which is two parts...want, and ability to pay...and production/supply.

My problem is, for the last 30 years or so, we've been in acting policy that assumes that "if you build it, they will come". Well, that hasn't been working out. Alan Greenspan, the wizard himself, has admitted, before God and country, that this was, is, wrong.


Why can't you?
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Because I've been one of those business owners who for 35 years have created demand and very successful businesses proving it's true.
 
blaxshep said:
True, but I think the core of this argument is that Capitalists seem to think the Owners and businesses are the sole creators of jobs, the reality there is a lot of requirements to creating jobs, they are just a cog in the machine. In the end though without demand its a non-starter.

And sorry liberals, government jobs are negative jobs. It takes jobs to pay the taxes that government uses to "Create jobs" it is incredibly inefficient and a net loss to the economy.
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So is using tax money via income redistribution programs - that (artificial?) demand is funded by taxing the suppliers.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
So is using tax money via income redistribution programs - that (artificial?) demand is funded by taxing the suppliers.
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Agreed. In essence tax money is not real money, it is not derived from GDP it's taken out of it.
 
KevinKohler said:
There was demand for better portable means of communication long before the cell phone. Same for all of the examples you listed.
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We had two wave radios and CBs.

As for cell phones how could there have been a demand for a product that didn't exist ?
 
Fenton said:
We had two wave radios and CBs.

As for cell phones how could there have been a demand for a product that didn't exist ?
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I've already posted why, in this very thread.
 
KevinKohler said:
Demand creates jobs.


Businesses that create jobs for which there is no demand don't stay in business very long.
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There was a demand in cave man days for cell phones, televisions, cars, and airplanes. No businesses were around who could fill the demand. It takes a business to fill demand. It doesn't magically happen all by itself.
 
Moderate Right said:
There was a demand in cave man days for cell phones, televisions, cars, and airplanes. No businesses were around who could fill the demand. It takes a business to fill demand. It doesn't magically happen all by itself.
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A point I already conceded earlier in the thread.
 
Moderate Right said:
There was a demand in cave man days for cell phones, televisions, cars, and airplanes. No businesses were around who could fill the demand. It takes a business to fill demand. It doesn't magically happen all by itself.
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The demand was for communication, and it was fulfilled by cavemen that did in fact communicate without any businesses.
 
blaxshep said:
The demand was for communication, and it was fulfilled by cavemen that did in fact communicate without any businesses.
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Links to prove please. How do you know that cavemen did not engage in business?
 
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