In general, the justification for larger businesses is efficiencies of scale. By definition, the more efficiency you create in your business execution, the less you need to staff. So fewer, larger, companies will have a bunch of jobs but it will be, in aggregate, less than the larger number of small companies who would perform the same amount of production.
That's one of those classic conundrums in economics: by creating efficiency, you reduce unit costs and produce more with the same amount of input. That's good for the consumers of your products as it tends to lower prices (if it is a competitive market). However, that reduces the hiring rate, leading to more slack in the labor market. If there is not enough creation of new segments of the economy that will pick up the slack in the labor market, too much efficiency can lead to economic conditions where out of work folks aren't able to support the output your company has ramped up by creating all that efficiency and then everything stagnates. This problem is especially problematic when you consider structural inequalities between market segments. If you consolidate manufacturing of a product by mergers and then off shoring, you've made the process more efficient, possibly leading to lower prices, and a bunch of laid off workers. If the area of the market that is trending, however, is not set up to hire those workers (say, high tech), then you get inflating wages and a hiring problem in one segment of the job market while having high unemployment in the other segment. In short, big business creates jobs but less jobs than would be created by small business meeting the same market need. On the other hand, they often will be able to reduce prices because of efficiencies. Those efficiencies, however, can lead to further economic problems down the road. So, yeah, it's a complicated feedback loop. In general, I prefer smaller business as I feel that the innovation possibilities and higher employment rates outweigh the benefits accrued from increasing consolidation. But there are arguments to be had both directions, for sure. Judah On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:48 PM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> But are those jobs from corporations, or from small businesses? >> >> Also, are those emails viable jobs, or just spam blasts from recruiters? >> > > Couple have been spam blasts, but most have not been. > > Some small businesses, several that were quite large. My company is > somewhere around 46K employees....that's a lot of jobs. > > Do you somehow doubt that corporations provide jobs? I mean, a corporation > is nothing more than a collection of employed people....right? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:343548 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
