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by jdietrich 8y ago
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>“They have been great,” he said of the newly hired workers. Still, he said, he lost about 1 million euros, about $1.1 million, in sales last year because he could not fill orders, most of them destined for export.
Multiply that across the whole economy and you're leaving a frightening amount of economic growth and tax revenue on the table. Providing subsidies and other support to encourage employers to hire disabled workers is unequivocally sensible; strangling the labour supply with ideologically-motivated controls on immigration is very much a mixed bag.
- astazangasta 8y agoI mean, horseshit. This guy says he would have made $1.1 million in sales. You know, I would have made $1.1 billion in sales. Start crying for all of that frightening lost economic growth! This is the standard claptrap we always here when there is a tight labor market and rising wages. Oh no, capitalists have to compete for workers! They might have to give them higher wages and better benefits in order to retain them! They might have to have an actually productive, profitable business to stay afloat. Oh noooo!