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I'm reading this as "one million indirect jobs" as opposed to "one million directly employed jobs". I'm not sure that a corporation with one million direct empl
by ironchief 12y ago
I'm reading this as "one million indirect jobs" as opposed to "one million directly employed jobs". I'm not sure that a corporation with one million direct employees is currently a desirable end goal due to large organizational overhead, political infighting and large inertia. Of course redefining what "jobs" are, would help.
- goodcanadian 12y agoI am reading it as several companies that create an aggregate of 1 million jobs rather than one absurdly large corporation.
- bstpierre 12y agoI am reading it as the creation of an entirely new industry which will spawn sub-industries, hundreds or thousands of firms, and a million jobs over the course of the next 20 years.
- dllthomas 12y agoThe way I read it, they don't care how many companies would employ the workers. It's about discovering new demand and a way to fill it that involves people. This is interesting precisely because most start-ups are trying to displace people with technology. Note that this isn't a negative judgement on either side: having people work on things they don't need to be working on can be bad at the same time that finding new things to work on can be good.