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In Reply to: Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Uber--- these posted by tinear on July 24, 2020 at 08:33:56:
Note I don't agree with Rod on the larger argument, just responding to your contention that the tech companies employ tiny amounts of workers.
The gist of the article below is that today's tech giants have added jobs at a faster rate than the old industrial companies.
I believe Amazon is now the 2nd biggest private employer in the US behind Walmart.
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Follow Ups Full ThreadTopic - Future Questions? - pictureguy 14:26:24 07/23/20 (116)
- RE: Time to worry pictureguy - tweaker456 19:21:23 07/28/20 (1)
- RE: Time to worry pictureguy - Inmate51 09:01:46 07/29/20 (0)
- RE: Future Questions? - tweaker456 11:48:14 07/26/20 (1)
- RE: Future Questions? - pictureguy 19:00:50 07/26/20 (0)
- RE: Future Questions? - JURB 22:26:51 07/24/20 (3)
- RE: Future Questions? - pictureguy 00:08:17 07/25/20 (2)
- RE: Future Questions? - Rod M 14:21:26 07/25/20 (1)
- RE: Future Questions? - pictureguy 18:30:32 07/25/20 (0)
- Inflation - Jay Buridan 14:17:33 07/24/20 (2)
- RE: Inflation - rivervalley817 14:28:26 07/24/20 (1)
- RE: Inflation - tweaker456 22:47:00 07/25/20 (0)
- RE: Future Questions? - pictureguy 13:49:27 07/24/20 (1)
- RE: Future Questions? - rivervalley817 14:01:27 07/24/20 (0)
- RE: Future Questions? - RGA 22:47:46 07/23/20 (72)
- "Spock says" - Inmate51 19:08:18 07/26/20 (1)
- RE: "Spock says" - RGA 23:17:00 07/26/20 (0)
- Tax Cuts - Inmate51 12:05:57 07/26/20 (1)
- RE: Tax Cuts - RGA 23:20:34 07/26/20 (0)
- The real question is, who would buy? - Dave_K 12:36:59 07/24/20 (0)
- RE: Future Questions? - pictureguy 23:55:57 07/23/20 (62)
- RE: Future Questions? - Dave_K 13:23:49 07/24/20 (1)
- RE: Future Questions? - rivervalley817 13:49:21 07/24/20 (0)
- Class Envy - Inmate51 08:24:25 07/24/20 (1)
- "who will create jobs for the rest of us?"... - Steve O 10:19:29 07/24/20 (0)
- Actually, it's a myth that the wealthy and corporations are "investing" their lucre to create jobs. That - tinear 08:22:50 07/24/20 (0)
- Wow. You still believe in trickle down economics?! - Rick W 07:45:54 07/24/20 (47)
- RE: Wow. You still believe in trickle down economics?! - Rod M 08:20:27 07/24/20 (45)
- RE: Wow. You still believe in trickle down economics?! - tweaker456 22:37:47 07/25/20 (0)
- RE: Wow. You still believe in trickle down economics?! - rivervalley817 12:53:02 07/24/20 (0)
- Where do you think they'd go to buy stuff, China? - Rick W 11:46:55 07/24/20 (41)
- RE: Where do you think they'd go to buy stuff, China? - Rod M 14:03:29 07/24/20 (40)
- RE: Where do you think they'd go to buy stuff, China? - pictureguy 10:13:20 07/25/20 (5)
- My buddy used to be a shop teacher.... - Rod M 11:44:46 07/25/20 (3)
- RE: My buddy used to be a shop teacher.... - pictureguy 12:29:02 07/25/20 (1)
- RE: My buddy used to be a shop teacher.... - Rod M 13:38:15 07/25/20 (0)
- RE: My buddy used to be a shop teacher.... - Inmate51 12:04:13 07/25/20 (0)
- RE: Where do you think they'd go to buy stuff, China? - rivervalley817 10:21:47 07/25/20 (0)
- Giving money to people - Inmate51 14:41:54 07/24/20 (32)
- RE: Giving money to people - RGA 20:40:25 07/24/20 (16)
- Student Loan Debt - Inmate51 16:22:05 07/25/20 (15)
- RE: Student Loan Debt - RGA 18:24:47 07/25/20 (0)
- RE: Student Loan Debt - b.l.zeebub 17:03:04 07/25/20 (13)
- It's FREE!! - Inmate51 07:05:54 07/26/20 (10)
- I love it when you post... - b.l.zeebub 09:35:34 07/26/20 (9)
- Taxes - Inmate51 11:37:48 07/26/20 (0)
- RE: I love it when you post... - rivervalley817 10:07:27 07/26/20 (4)
- "with plenty of analysis that it actually attracted talent and paid for itself" - b.l.zeebub 10:52:15 07/26/20 (3)
- RE: "with plenty of analysis that it actually attracted talent and paid for itself" - Inmate51 05:50:50 07/27/20 (1)
- RE: "with plenty of analysis that it actually attracted talent and paid for itself" - RGA 23:24:35 07/27/20 (0)
- RE: "with plenty of analysis that it actually attracted talent and paid for itself" - rivervalley817 11:00:14 07/26/20 (0)
- RE: I love it when you post... - Inmate51 09:56:38 07/26/20 (1)
- RE: I love it when you post... - b.l.zeebub 11:34:52 07/26/20 (0)
- RE: I love it when you post... - tweaker456 09:52:39 07/26/20 (0)
- RE: Student Loan Debt - RGA 18:35:59 07/25/20 (1)
- RE: Student Loan Debt - b.l.zeebub 23:09:23 07/25/20 (0)
- RE: Giving money to people - rivervalley817 14:48:53 07/24/20 (14)
- RE: Giving money to people - Inmate51 15:18:09 07/24/20 (13)
- You and your ilk continue to forget that... - MWE 21:11:04 07/25/20 (4)
- RE: You and your ilk continue to forget that... - rivervalley817 09:34:21 07/26/20 (2)
- RE: You and your ilk continue to forget that... - RGA 23:50:05 07/26/20 (1)
- RE: You and your ilk continue to forget that... - rivervalley817 09:44:57 07/27/20 (0)
- RE: You and your ilk continue to forget that... - RGA 02:58:12 07/26/20 (0)
- RE: Giving money to people - rivervalley817 15:23:46 07/24/20 (7)
- RE: Giving money to people - RGA 20:50:06 07/24/20 (6)
- RE: Giving money to people - rivervalley817 21:12:46 07/24/20 (5)
- RE: Giving money to people - RGA 18:51:44 07/25/20 (3)
- RE: Giving money to people - rivervalley817 19:42:19 07/25/20 (2)
- RE: Giving money to people - RGA 20:41:07 07/25/20 (1)
- Wonderfully well-stated. Nt. - MWE 20:59:45 07/25/20 (0)
- RE: Giving money to people - Inmate51 07:29:13 07/25/20 (0)
- RE: Where do you think they'd go to buy stuff, China? - rivervalley817 14:12:33 07/24/20 (0)
- Divide that 3 trillion by the bottom 20% of Americans: that would be - tinear 08:31:34 07/24/20 (0)
- RE: Wow. You still believe in trickle down economics?! - tweaker456 08:01:32 07/24/20 (0)
- Class envy is dangerous.... - Rod M 07:43:16 07/24/20 (6)
- RE: Class envy is dangerous.... - b.l.zeebub 23:27:34 07/25/20 (0)
- RE: Class envy is dangerous.... - Inmate51 14:19:31 07/24/20 (0)
- "The government spends too much." On what, specifically. - tinear 08:36:15 07/24/20 (0)
- RE: Class envy is dangerous.... - tweaker456 08:34:24 07/24/20 (0)
- Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Uber--- these - tinear 08:33:56 07/24/20 (1)
- This article makes the case otherwise - Dave_K 07/24/2012:20:31 07/24/20 (0)
- RE: Future Questions? - RGA 07:07:43 07/24/20 (1)
- RE: Future Questions? - pictureguy 09:39:52 07/24/20 (0)
- RE: Future Questions? - tweaker456 23:09:52 07/23/20 (0)
- RE: Future Questions? - rivervalley817 23:04:29 07/23/20 (2)
- RE: Future Questions? - pictureguy 00:08:21 07/24/20 (1)
- RE: Future Questions? - rivervalley817 09:59:26 07/24/20 (0)
- Yep. The Oz Federal Govt just announced the biggest deficit since WW2 - JDK 18:42:57 07/23/20 (2)
- RE: Yep. The Oz Federal Govt just announced the biggest deficit since WW2 - RGA 22:57:02 07/23/20 (1)
- RE: Yep. The Oz Federal Govt just announced the biggest deficit since WW2 - JDK 23:57:54 07/23/20 (0)
- Wouldn't worry too much about it... - musetap 15:28:46 07/23/20 (2)
- RE: Wouldn't worry too much about it... - pictureguy 19:09:05 07/23/20 (1)
- RE: Wouldn't worry too much about it... - rivervalley817 22:46:58 07/23/20 (0)
- Congress votes, funds are allocated, boom it's paid for... - dean_martin 15:17:18 07/23/20 (1)
- RE: Congress votes, funds are allocated, boom it's paid for... - pictureguy 15:18:13 07/23/20 (0)
- RE: Future Questions? - tweaker456 15:02:18 07/23/20 (4)
- RE: Future Questions? - pictureguy 15:18:48 07/23/20 (3)
- RE: Future Questions? - tweaker456 17:28:12 07/23/20 (2)
- RE: Future Questions? - pictureguy 18:59:22 07/23/20 (1)
- RE: Future Questions? - tweaker456 19:39:23 07/23/20 (0)
- All my life.. - ghost of olddude55 14:39:19 07/23/20 (14)
- RE: All my life.. - BillH 07:55:56 07/29/20 (0)
- "We have our own central bank, also unlike, say, Greece." - b.l.zeebub 15:27:51 07/24/20 (1)
- PS: - b.l.zeebub 15:50:38 07/24/20 (0)
- RE: All my life.. - tweaker456 15:28:27 07/23/20 (7)
- Prestige don't mean a thing... - ghost of olddude55 18:01:05 07/23/20 (6)
- RE: Prestige don't mean a thing... - tweaker456 19:26:49 07/23/20 (5)
- The rest of the world just might... - ghost of olddude55 03:27:25 07/24/20 (4)
- RE: Financial Times-We may be heading towards a post-dollar world - tweaker456 07:59:07 07/24/20 (0)
- RE: The rest of the world just might... - tweaker456 06:46:54 07/24/20 (2)
- RE: The rest of the world just might... - b.l.zeebub 01:11:06 07/25/20 (1)
- RE: The rest of the world just might... - tweaker456 07:52:15 07/25/20 (0)
- RE: All my life.. - pictureguy 14:55:43 07/23/20 (2)
- RE: All my life.. - ghost of olddude55 15:01:15 07/23/20 (1)
- Don't worry... - musetap 20:22:34 07/23/20 (0)
- "Who is going to take the brunt of paying for this?" - b.l.zeebub 14:30:03 07/23/20 (1)
- RE: "Who is going to take the brunt of paying for this?" - pictureguy 13:20:17 07/24/20 (0)
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- This article makes the case otherwise - Dave_K 07/24/2012:20:31 07/24/20 (0)