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fasttense

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27. You say it yourself in your description - DEMAND creates jobs.

Reply to Nuclear Unicorn (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 16, 2011, 08:07 AM

Dec 2011

"You can be all fired-up to buy" - An acurate description of demand.

Without first having a demand for a widget the guy who wants to sell the widget is out of luck.

To have that demand ready and waiting for the widget is what a robust economy does.

Besides, the way I've seen new businesses start, isn't anything like you describe.

First a person notices there is a demand for something unavailable. He or she starts making a few. They sell out, they make more, they sell out again. They hire a few people and make even more. Slowly they are reinvesting their profit in the business. When the business is big enough to provide a good salary for the owner, a large corporation moves in, buys it up and moves it to China.

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Nope bongbong Dec 2011 #7

So where does the start-up money come from? Nuclear Unicorn Dec 2011 #9

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I would not deny any of that Nuclear Unicorn Dec 2011 #14

Perhaps not directly. CTyankee Dec 2011 #16

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You say it yourself in your description - DEMAND creates jobs. fasttense Dec 2011 #27

No US Media will Highlight this krucial Dec 2011 #3

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We need to tax the shit out of their precious profits. Initech Dec 2011 #22

True, this. n/t BeHereNow Dec 2011 #17

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Outstanding, thanks for posting..nt Stuart G Dec 2011 #15

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k&r for the truth. n/t Laelth Dec 2011 #29