Individual businesses do not necessarily create net jobs

[OohPooPahDoo]

Individual businesses do not necessarily create net jobs.



Bob owns an auto shop. He employs 5 people.

Jim opens up an auto shop down the street. He "creates" 5 jobs.

But the same number of people need their cars fixed. Jim's shop is better than Bob's. Bob eventually goes out of business because of this. Through Jim's competitive action - he has destroyed 5 jobs at Bob's auto shop.

5 jobs created - 5 jobs destroyed = 0 net new jobs


In fact - job loss at your competitors - it is a well known consequence of competition. While is a businessman's job to create and expand his own business - thus making jobs - its also his job to take as much business from his competitors as possible (though a better product or service is created through the competition)

 

[Katzndogz]

With the increase in business Jim hires the five people who used to work for Bob.

 

[Yurt]

not according to obama

created or saved.....

 

[peach174]

With the increase in business Jim hires the five people who used to work for Bob.

And his shop is doing so well he hires 5 more workers.

Then, he does so well that he can open up more shops and hire even more people.

15 employees at each shop.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Me thinks poopoo didnt think it through....

 

[Pete7469]

Me thinks poopoo didnt think it through....

You think he has the capacity to do so?

Even if a person sells his labor directly to a customer, he has created a job. Anyone with ambition will try and sell the labor of others for a profit margin. The more people he employs, the greater his overall income should be.

Bed wetting liberalism is destroying that.

 

[Katzndogz]

With the increase in business Jim hires the five people who used to work for Bob.

And his shop is doing so well he hires 5 more workers.

Then, he does so well that he can open up more shops and hire even more people.

15 employees at each shop.

Then he changes the name of his shop to Auto Zone and goes national!

Yay for Jim.

 

[peach174]

Individual businesses do not necessarily create net jobs.



Bob owns an auto shop. He employs 5 people.

Jim opens up an auto shop down the street. He "creates" 5 jobs.

But the same number of people need their cars fixed. Jim's shop is better than Bob's. Bob eventually goes out of business because of this. Through Jim's competitive action - he has destroyed 5 jobs at Bob's auto shop.

5 jobs created - 5 jobs destroyed = 0 net new jobs


In fact - job loss at your competitors - it is a well known consequence of competition. While is a businessman's job to create and expand his own business - thus making jobs - its also his job to take as much business from his competitors as possible (though a better product or service is created through the competition)

If that were true, we would only have one type of pizza parlor. Some pizza places have terrible pizza by some people's standards, yet many still go to the place that they think has bad tasting pizza.
The main reason businesses shut down, is because of lousy management and terrible decisions. Not because of competition.

 

[Katzndogz]

This is the way liberals think. There is only so much money, so if one person has money, it means someone else does not. There are only so many jobs. If one person is working it necessarily means that someone else is not. It's all static and rigid. Jim can't possibly create new jobs that would exceed the number of all jobs available. This is why socialism fails.

 

[blastoff]

Gee, wish I was as smart as ooppoop.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Individual businesses do not necessarily create net jobs.



Bob owns an auto shop. He employs 5 people.

Jim opens up an auto shop down the street. He "creates" 5 jobs.

But the same number of people need their cars fixed. Jim's shop is better than Bob's. Bob eventually goes out of business because of this. Through Jim's competitive action - he has destroyed 5 jobs at Bob's auto shop.

5 jobs created - 5 jobs destroyed = 0 net new jobs


In fact - job loss at your competitors - it is a well known consequence of competition. While is a businessman's job to create and expand his own business - thus making jobs - its also his job to take as much business from his competitors as possible (though a better product or service is created through the competition)

^ Exhibit A: Why Progressive run economies are the world's poorest

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I use to think the whole "Liberalism is a mental disorder" thing was just a poke at libs.
But the more I converse with them......

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Individual businesses do not necessarily create net jobs.



Bob owns an auto shop. He employs 5 people.

Jim opens up an auto shop down the street. He "creates" 5 jobs.

But the same number of people need their cars fixed. Jim's shop is better than Bob's. Bob eventually goes out of business because of this. Through Jim's competitive action - he has destroyed 5 jobs at Bob's auto shop.

5 jobs created - 5 jobs destroyed = 0 net new jobs


In fact - job loss at your competitors - it is a well known consequence of competition. While is a businessman's job to create and expand his own business - thus making jobs - its also his job to take as much business from his competitors as possible (though a better product or service is created through the competition)

^ Exhibit A: Why Progressive run economies are the world's poorest

This is what progressive utopias do. They promise that govt will care for everyone yet its never true. Look at Iceland , Greece, Spain, and every other socialist run state to see the misery.

 

[DiamondDave]

But government takes from business and those with capital to invest... they in turn invest less and hire less.. the money taken into government gets siphoned thru numerous levels of red tape and bureaucracy... and with the millions taken in, a few government jobs are created that can only be sustained by further taxation and confiscation... but OooPooPooPoo thinks this is better than businesses and investors keeping more, spending more, and taking risks in opening new businesses, expanding, etc...



Leave it to a progtard

 

[Pete7469]

Gee, wish I was as smart as ooppoop.

That would be easy to achieve, go get a frontal lobotomy.

 

[depotoo]

With the increase in business Jim hires the five people who used to work for Bob.

 

[Crackerjaxon]

That may be the dumbest thing I've ever read.


...and I regularly read the NYT.