Eaststand wrote:Itll never be at the stage when everyone is unemployed though, so its not really a relevant point. Streamlining a business is good. It enables it to be more efficient, make more money, and in this case, lower the prices to the consumer, which theyve now guaranteed. Business is business, you dont owe anyone a living, youre their to make money, and as much money as you possibly can, its not a game or a charity. The only aim is to make more money. If laying people off, merging distribution streams together, being able to offer lower prices as a result to the consumer, which will lead to an upsurge in turnover, how can that be bad?
As I said, it's not bad in itself. You're quite right that companies are there to make money , not provide jobs, although there's a legitimate function of government to try to encourage employment where possible without interfering in anyone's private businesses.
The government should be encouraging companies and individuals to make money because that will make the whole economy thrive and create more jobs, which is the right way round.
My point though, was that the government constantly pokes it's nose into free trade within the home market for various political motives and because the government couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery they fuck it up and increasingly make economic health impossible , yet they have at the same time undertaken responsibility for all sorts of stupid things as well as paying benefits to the unemployed and because they based their expenses in this upon a healthy economy before the welfare state was introduced they are gradually running out of the means to pay these benefits because they are actively destroying private enterprise and,with it, jobs.
By the way , it's not unimaginable at this rate that employment could become a real rarity in this country. If there's no money to pay salaries, there will be no jobs or future investment.
Actually the only way for them to continue to spend like this as employment tax falls is to vastly increase purchase taxes, duties on goods and services and various forms of vat. They haven't worked that out yet because they're so fucking stupid , but they'll get there very soon and you'll be paying £30 a gallon for petrol before the end.
