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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
"Tech companies" create jobs. Google didn't start Google to reduce labor costs at Google. They could have just stayed in their garage smoking bud and had no labor cost. In the 80s and 90s, the companies building assembly robots created jobs, at their companies. None of that is arguable.
Robots did reduce jobs at the companies that bought the robots, but I'm not sure I see similar reductions from the e-industries?
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Totally. But I think Sebby's argument is that they create a small number of good jobs, relatively, and possibly a large number of crappy jobs (maybe not Google, but Amazon warehouse workers and Uber drivers), and that they eliminate a lot more jobs that are better than the crappy jobs the bring.
To take Google, for example, Sebby is also missing that there are benefits to targeted advertising. If you run a B&B in a small town, Google ads are a much better way to reach people who might want your services than buying traditional broadcast or print ads. The reason why Google is so dominant is that its ads perform so well. If newspaper ads were nearly as good, newspapers wouldn't be going out of business left and right.
