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[Adam Todd]

At 07:57 25/08/2004 +1000, Deus Ex Machina wrote:
>Howard Lowndes [lannet at lannet.com.au] wrote:
> > > this is in fact wrong. progress creates more jobs.
> >
> > Not necessarily, progress creates more income for those who already have
> > jobs and more profit for investors and shareholders.
>
>if you had some basic macro economic background you would know that it
>has been a historical fact that progress creates jobs

Yes, this is true.

However those who aren't part of the progress, normally a larger subset, 
tend to loose their jobs.

If you had any advanced macro economic background, you'd know that progress 
causes unemployment increases.

The way Government uses statistics (here we go!) is to say that 50,000 new 
jobs were created.

What it doesn't tell you is that in NSW alone, 85,000 students graduated 
from University, 20,000 finished the HSC and did not get University 
placement, 40,000 people ceased full time work, and 20,000 people ceased 
casual work.

See my wife and I are not part of the unemployment statistics.  We don't 
earn an income, and we don't have jobs.  But we don't count on the figures 
either.  I must know hundreds of people who aren't collecting unemployment 
benefit or on job search lists and I dare say my exposure is a mere 
fraction of a much greater subset.

Anyone offering some casual work is most welcome to call us!  We're looking 
for little odd activities that help out small business and in return we can 
pay our bills!