Customers create jobs. Jobs are created through the system. Businesses play just one part in the equation, but there are no jobs without some sort of exchange. What does the "business" do? If it does not fill a need, it will die and there will be no jobs. It is not a one sided proposition. You can create a business, but there won't be jobs unless that business grows and succeeds.
Just one example, Sears and K-Mart are shedding jobs, not creating them.
...A healthy economic ecosystem — one in which most participants (especially the middle class) have plenty of money to spend.
Over the last couple of years, a rich investor and entrepreneur named
Nick Hanauer has annoyed all manner of other rich investors and entrepreneurs by explaining this in detail. Hanauer was the founder of online advertising company aQuantive, which
Microsoft bought for $6.4 billion.
What creates a company's jobs, Hanauer explains, is a healthy economic ecosystem surrounding the company, which starts with the company's customers.
The company's customers buy the company's products. This, in turn, channels money to the company and allows the the company to hire employees to produce, sell, and service those products. If the company's customers and potential customers go broke, the demand for the company's products will collapse. And the company's jobs will disappear, regardless of what the entrepreneurs or investors do...
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http://www.businessinsider.com/rich-people-create-jobs-2013-11#ixzz3HFq1sD00