Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not

Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by nitwit005 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @02:13AM (#17965947)

Imagine an extremely simplified model where all immigrants to a city are experienced taxi drivers. There's more demand for goods, but probably only a small uptick in demand for taxis. The supply of available taxi drivers has gone way up however.

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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by chkdsk on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @02:54AM (#17966112)

So you believe taxi drivers never need to use taxis?

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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by nitwit005 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @03:12AM (#17966182)

I rather clearly stated they would, just not much. The poor don't use taxis very frequently, as it's expensive to do so.

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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by sanxiyn on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @03:22AM (#17966230)

One taxi driver usually generates demand less than what one taxi driver usually supplies.

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Re:Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Povert... by michaelt on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:54AM (#17966941)

A taxi driver generates 8 hours per day of rides.

While taxi drivers sometimes consume rides, I can't imagine anyone thinks they consume 8 hours a day of rides?

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