2.12.2013

Basiswissen Ökonomie

As America struggles with high unemployment and record inequality, everyone is offering competing solutions to the problem.

In this war of words (and classes), one thing has been repeated so often that many people now regard it as fact.

"Rich people create the jobs."

Specifically, by starting and directing America's companies, entrepreneurs and rich investors create the jobs that sustain everyone else.

This statement is usually invoked to justify cutting taxes on entrepreneurs and investors.  If only we reduce those taxes and regulations, the story goes, entrepreneurs and investors can be incented to build more companies and create more jobs.

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Entrepreneurs […] actually don't create the jobs -- not sustainable ones, anyway.

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So, if rich people do not create the jobs, what does?

What creates a company's jobs[…] is a healthy economic ecosystem surrounding the company, which starts with the company's customers.

The company's customers buy the company's products. This, in turn, channels money to the company and allows the the company to hire employees to produce, sell, and service those products. If the company's customers and potential customers go broke, the demand for the company's products will collapse. And the company's jobs will disappear, regardless of what the entrepreneurs or investors do.

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(businessinsider.com; via NDS.)

Mein Chef bei Steinberg sagt ja immer wieder diesen einen Satz: „Der Kunde ist König”.

Angesichts heutiger Verhältnisse ist sein Statement keinesfalls eine Binse, die man müde nur belächeln kann. Das ist, offenkundig, eine mühsam verteidigte Wahrheit gegen eine Auffassung von Ökonomie, in der der Mensch (i.e. Kunde – vom Arbeiter redet man ja schon lange nicht mehr) kaum noch eine Rolle zu spielen scheint.

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