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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKen Fisher, Billionaire Forbes Writer, Attempts To Argue That The U.S. Needs Fewer Jobs
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/06/ken-fisher-forbes_n_2251630.html?utm_hp_ref=business"Jobs, Fisher explains, are actually signs of weakness in the economy. Jobs mean we can't produce stuff without human beings lousing up the place, instead of nice, clean robots, which are not constantly pestering you for health care and maternity leave and breaks. The greater our economy's productivity, the less we need of such nuisances. Then we can all sip cocktails on the beach for the rest of our days. Sous les paves, la plage.
"In the long run we will all benefit," Fisher says, by nobody having any jobs any more, forever. He then goes on to extol the virtues of investing in a handful of companies he says will be top-notch at destroying jobs, including Anheuser-Busch InBev and Walmart."
Now isn't that the Christmas spirit Mr Grinch.
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Ken Fisher, Billionaire Forbes Writer, Attempts To Argue That The U.S. Needs Fewer Jobs (Original Post)
pipewrench
Dec 2012
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Johonny
(20,852 posts)1. He sounds over qualified for a heritage foundation job.
Initech
(100,081 posts)2. Our economy has been taken over by billionaire terrorists.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)4. and the homeless penniless unemployed customers?
are gonna buy what? Or do you plan to sell the beer to the happy robots?
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)6. People like Fisher are unable to draw that connection. nt
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)5. We miss ya, Kurt.....
Nay
(12,051 posts)7. We could only wish that unneeded workers would be treated as well as they were in Player Piano!
This bunch of rich assholes we have now would just throw us all out onto the streets, and herd us with firehoses.