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- From: brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder)
- Subject: Re: What A White Person Learned in College About AfAm Culture
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- References: <1992Dec24.224317.25542@athena.mit.edu> <38069@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> <1993Jan3.212307.6498@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 10:14:08 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.212307.6498@athena.mit.edu> solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
- >In article <38069@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>, djohns@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David A. Johns) writes:
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- >|> You don't think that American workers benefitted from having had 10
- >|> percent of the population excluded from the job market?
-
- >They probably did. I would say that that was another reason in favor of the
- >"preference" if it weren't for the fact that the same people that had an
- >easier time job hunting payed significantly higher taxes to finance the
- >salaries of those abroad.
-
- I completely disagree, and I think you need to take a much different view of
- economics in order to see it. The most important action of workers in
- an economy with regard to individual well-being is not how many jobs are
- "filled", but how much production is going on. If 10% of the population
- is not producing (or not producing as much as before) then the overall
- wellbeing which can be achieved is going to be roughly 10% less.
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- Jobs do not exist in some static quantity in order to be doled out and
- divided up. This view of jobs as some kind of natural resource is the
- source of an awful lot of confusion in economics if you ask me. Perhaps
- of the educationists started treating production as the primary goal of
- economics rather than the distribution of what has been produced, we wouldn't
- see so many economically naive views being so popular in the political realm.
-
- Remember Say's Law: You can't consume more than you produce.
-
- --Brian
-