Frank:

The job is indeed something that needs getting done; but I have seen an awful lot of people glad to have jobs that would not have existed if a small handful or a single entrepreneur had not bitten the bullet and started a commercial activity and made it start running so it could support paying out a few salaries, and then synchronizing those so a few more could be afforded and choosing well, which of the many possible jobs that could be added would be the right ones to add when.

There's more risk in agreeing to hire someone than there is in agreeing to be hired by someone. It's the nature of the beast, at least in the way this society has evolved. Either side can walk away if things go to hell, but the owner owns the liabilities. And the repute of failure.

This is in no way to disagree with your basic tenets about the crookedness of "free-market dynamics" in a capitalist society, but just trying to offer both sides of the story.


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