Re: Swallowing Propaganda
8th-Let's see, if I show up at work, apply myself and get promoted with commensurate salary for my skills that means that somewhere
someone gets demoted and their salary slashed? Who knew?
Eris-Well, yes, and most people knew. Basic business: cost goes up, price rates go up. If one department grows out of their budget, either another department has to downsize to compensate, or the company has to get more money out of whoever the paying customer is. There is a finite amount of money moving through the economy, and the more you have, the less other people have at any given moment (it's the same basic concept as conservation of mass and energy)
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Eris, you're missing an important component of business, however. Expansion! A business' goal is to acheive greater market share. This may be done in innumerable ways a few of which may be by decreasing a less productive work force or increasing a more productive one, or a combination thereof, or none of the above.
You cannot say that the amount of money moving through the economy is finite, in that it's constantly changing through new sources of revenue, new people added to the population to buy things, new resources needed, new resources found...ah...the list is endless.
Money/economies are not at all the same as mass and energy. Money/economies are subject to constant change. Mass and energy are bound by principals of nature.
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