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This is how you create jobs in 2009 - Mac1337 - 12-15-2008
No government programs, no bailouts money no "bridge loans". Is anybody talking about how to get more of this in the country? Of course not. All the clueless politicians can think about are "roads and bridges".
"In the BusinessWeek (12/12) Economics Unbound blog, Michael Mandel wrote that the Apple iPod creates 13,920 jobs in the US, "including engineering and retail." It also creates "27,250 iPod-related jobs...outside the US," according to a study by researchers at the Personal Computing Industry Center at the University of California-Irvine.
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After taking into account "cross-country wage differences," the researchers found that "US workers earned $753 million, while workers outside the U.S. earned $318 million."
All from a device with perhaps $10 worth of parts in it.
Re: This is how you create jobs in 2009 - AlphaDog - 12-15-2008
Well, if you're suggesting more iPods be built, they're going to have to be redesigned to include more useful features before I'd buy one.
Re: This is how you create jobs in 2009 - deckeda - 12-15-2008
I think Dakota means folks should be working retail or some other low-wage job. The engineering and outside-the U.S jobs aren't much of a help overall here. Or maybe the answer is even easier than that. All you have to do is invent the next great gadget. I've got 30 mins left in my workday, I'll get right on it.
Re: This is how you create jobs in 2009 - Wags - 12-16-2008
Hmm, let me get out my calculator. 10,300,000 minus 13,920.
Hooray! Only 10,286,080 more jobs to go. All we need is 740 new gadgets just like the iPod. Call the Leader, problem solved. Oh, wait, there goes another couple million jobs....
Re: This is how you create jobs in 2009 - Mac1337 - 12-16-2008
Wags wrote:
All we need is 740 new gadgets just like the iPod.
Is that a lot to ask? Your solution is then to dig ditches. Brilliant mind.
Re: This is how you create jobs in 2009 - $tevie - 12-16-2008
Of the 600,000 public road bridges in the country, about 12 percent are classified as structurally deficient. Any of these bridges could collapse if conditions were right, like the bridge in Minnesota did. I know a bridge engineer and he said that the industry has been asking the government to address this problem through the last two administrations. The bridges built before the late sixties all need to be updated to prevent a similar disaster. The sort of manpower required to adapt existing bridges, planning and implementing and the physical labor, isn't exactly what I would call "digging ditches".
Re: This is how you create jobs in 2009 - Mac1337 - 12-16-2008
$tevie wrote:
Of the 600,000 public road bridges in the country, about 12 percent are classified as structurally deficient. Any of these bridges could collapse if conditions were right, like the bridge in Minnesota did. I know a bridge engineer and he said that the industry has been asking the government to address this problem through the last two administrations. The bridges built before the late sixties all need to be updated to prevent a similar disaster. The sort of manpower required to adapt existing bridges, planning and implementing and the physical labor, isn't exactly what I would call "digging ditches".
I am not talking down this line of work. I am just saying if that is all you hear, which you do, it shows a lack of imagination on the part of the politicians. Someone should ask them how do you help create another Apple?
Re: This is how you create jobs in 2009 - Greg the dogsitter - 12-16-2008
Dakota wrote:
Someone should ask them how do you help create another Apple?
I don't know who would have the answer to that. There's leadership, design, marketing, technology...
Boy, that's a biggie.
Re: This is how you create jobs in 2009 - $tevie - 12-16-2008
I don't think you can create another Apple any more than you can create another Victor Talking Machine Company. All you can do is encourage education, imagination, creativity, and bold entrepreneurship -- all of which requires an investment of time and of money -- and hope the next Woz or Edison is the result.
Re: This is how you create jobs in 2009 - Wags - 12-17-2008
Dakota wrote:
[quote=Wags]
All we need is 740 new gadgets just like the iPod.
Is that a lot to ask? Your solution is then to dig ditches. Brilliant mind.
What kind of brilliant mind sees the choice as either iPods or ditch digging?