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Re:Solar Now Provides Twice as Many Jobs as the Coal Industry by TheSpiceIsLife on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @12:27AM (#13751491)
In what way is employing people in an offical capacity (you pay them, withhold income tax, holiday pay, health cover, superannuation (401k or whatever you call it) off the books?

Don't these data get reported to government, and worker on academic and corporate economists? Who endeavour to account for the effects of employment in an econo-socio-politio-historic evaluation of the world.

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Re:Solar Now Provides Twice as Many Jobs as the Coal Industry by Gibbon1 on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @01:35AM (#13751757)
> off the books?

It's counted as a 'cost' but over the big picture it's not.

It's like this economics teaches us that labor is a cost to be minimized. All good and well except if workers have no money they can't buy anything.

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