Quote from Ricter:
No one said that.
Quote from jem:
First you have a quote about robots replacing jobs...
Then you have the quote below... dissing jobs when you could have technology.
So you seem to be pro productivity improvement at the expense of jobs...
Its either that or you hope everyone becomes dependent on leftists?
Here you I saw you dissing jobs... No? Or are you saying technology over jobs?
"At one of our dinners, Milton [Friedman] recalled traveling to an Asian country in the 1960s and visiting a worksite where a new canal was being built. He was shocked to see that, instead of modern tractors and earth movers, the workers had shovels. He asked why there were so few machines. The government bureaucrat explained: âYou donât understand. This is a jobs program.â To which Milton replied: âOh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If itâs jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels.â
Quote from Tsing Tao:
Yes, because starting a business is so easy today. No barriers to entry whatsoever.
Quote from bigarrow:
It is easy to start a small business, always has been in my adult lifetime. There are barriers though, you gotta have some capital, business insurance, some cash to make it till some sales come and of course a service or product but those barriers are normal and expected. From my limited experience local, county and state have much more restrictions than the federal government. But again that is as it should be, local and state control.
Quote from bigarrow:
There isn't much difference running a small business now than before IMO. As long as everyone is competing under the same rules then it should be a level playing field. Example: Bidding government work in construction has always carried more insurance and financial requirements and that raises the cost of doing business but everyone bidding those jobs are working under the same rules so it doesn't change the competitive part. The most efficient or hungry gets the job. There are always excuses on why people can't make it. It's tough in business and always has been. It is easy to start a business and hard to be successful.