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Re:The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade... by scotty79 on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @04:48PM (#10383366)
You can always make more jobs. Just tax people that have money and give the money away to other people in exchange for participating in elaborate paper pushing schemes. Bureaucracy has been providing jobs for people as the technology progressed.

For example... No jobs? That's great opportunity to hire some people to help unemployed look for a job plus some people to educate the unemployed plus some people that would decide if unemployed deserves some material aid... you can also hire some people to audit those people and hire some more to build software for those people and for the auditors and so on and so forth.

As long as you can tax, you can invent bullshit jobs to have an excuse to give that money away.

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Re:The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade... by mtinkerhess on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @04:59PM (#10383441)
Sure, or you can tax people that have money and spend that to invest in infrastructure, education, health care, etc., which also creates jobs.
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Re:The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade... by scotty79 on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @05:15PM (#10383533)
Yes. But that requires some thought, decisions, why this not that. People will hate you.

Bureaucracy grows organically and almost no one notices and people are happy because they have more jobs.

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