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Posted by Nilet on Sat Oct 25 22:08:05 2014, in response to Re: ''Don't let anybody tell you that businesses create jobs'', posted by Sand Box John on Sat Oct 25 21:36:51 2014. Private contractors in the business to make a profit that were the lowest bidders to build said schools and roads.But it was the government who paid for them, and the government who pays to maintain them. Teachers work for the government, and the government could have hired workers to build all that rather than contract the jobs out, usually at a greater price. The private enterprises that are in business of make a profit running railroads. I was referring to passenger trains. Private enterprises can't run those. It was the people employed by private enterprises that are in the business to make a profit that did all the work not the government employes that collected the taxes to pay for it. But it was the government who did pay for it— which means all those private enterprises who rely on it have no right to claim that they shouldn't be required to pay their fair share to keep it all functional. That was sort of the point of "you didn't build that," the quote Olog offered out of context. People will work and make things— governments and businesses are just different ways to organise production across a society so the right things are produced in the right quantities. Businesses have a built-in need to remain profitable, meaning that businesses will be more efficient at producing any goods or services where the production of said goods or services are profitable and profit correlates with quality and quantity produced up to the point where demand is met, with the correlation to quantity dropping off thereafter. Governments have less rigid constraints - a government that does bad things can continue doing bad things much longer than a company can remain unprofitable - but because they're not limited by the need to make a profit, a government can produce goods and services that are necessary but not profitable, and they can produce goods and services more efficiently than private enterprise if there's a more tenuous relationship between quality and profit. |
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