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whoa, did he strike a nerve? lolKeep digging that hole. You know as well as I do, the only jobs that count are the ones in your own country, not in a 3rd world country. Dont try to hide behind globalization and excuse the acts of companies like GM and others for cutting jobs in the US (and Europe) while racking up billions in profits year after year.
Still, I don't see why you would marginalize that as an excuse. With the onset of globalization, it sounds exactly what companies would do if they found it too costly to give americans jobs.
Unless they have credit cards. I don't know about spain but, in the US, people use credit cards en masse, even when they can't afford it(or especially when they can't afford it); hence, the current credit crises.As you stated people without jobs dont spend,
True, but there are 300 million people in the US, so these companies have plenty of other people to sell to outside their own employees.hence laying off people in the US (or Europe) will mean less consumption in the very market that those companies sell a majority of their products in.
Well yea, In America, the average american will hold 9 jobs in their life time, and that's expected to rise to 13.But I am guessing that you are one of those "they can get another different job" types..
Maybe in your part of the world.well in the real world that is more than often not the case at least in the short term.
Idk, I've seen McD workers have a lot of stuff despite their earnings.You wont have a guy working for GM have the same spending habits if he got a job at McD.
even though that has happened.And you cant have a guy working for GM instantly turning over and becoming a doctor, or nurse, or start his own tech company.