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It seems intuitive to me that the more expensive and difficult a government makes it to hire and fire workers, the fewer workers businesses are going to hire.
by rhapsodic 10y ago
It seems intuitive to me that the more expensive and difficult a government makes it to hire and fire workers, the fewer workers businesses are going to hire.
- bmer 10y agoActually, businesses fired a lot of people after the government made it easier to fire people, especially for "out-source-able" positions. Hmm, seems that your intuition is generally wrong.
- rhapsodic 10y agoSeems you believe correlation proves causation.
- bmer 10y agoRather, in the absence of personal experience, I choose to believe someone who is well educated and generally involved in the politics of the country they reside in, rather than coming up with my own fantasies to fit whatever agenda I want to push.
- rhapsodic 10y agoDo the French no longer believe that raising the cost of something will lower demand for it?