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What you call "costs" actually are salaries/jobs for people living there -- unlike fees paid to MS.
by stewbrew 13y ago
What you call "costs" actually are salaries/jobs for people living there -- unlike fees paid to MS.
- dpina 13y agoThis. Even if a great deal of the savings from cutting MS fees is forwarded to training the current/new tech support it's still a win.
- frobozz 13y agoThis is an insightful point that those who push for austerity measures and privatisation always seem to miss. A government saves money if it pays €x to employ local taxpayers instead of sending that same amount abroad. It will still break even on the decision if it employs locals for €x+n, where n is the amount they recoup in tax from those locals. Even more if those locals would otherwise be unemployed.
- ams6110 13y agoGovernment gets its money by siphoning it out of the local economy, making that capital unavailable for private use while creating nothing of value. Government jobs are a net drain on an economy.