OL wrote:The part you're glossing over is that these products aren't distributed as much through the company itself, but rather through third-party vendors, all of whom employ vast amounts of people in a huge number of places. And as these overly-expensive products continue to sell, these third-party vendors continue making money for themselves, thus leading to the expantion of their operations, employing even more people as they go.
Regardless of what the product is, the sale of just about anything through a local store will benefit the economy. People are quick to demonize the rich just for being successful, but they wouldn't have that success without an extremely expansive network of people working under them, both in and outside of their own companies.
It's not just a force of shirtless slave labor turning a crank underground somewhere.
Vast amounts of people selling them? That's not "vast amounts" by any stretch considering the global economy. People who sit behind counters and pass stuff, occasionally adding PR bullshit, aren't going to save any economy. By using generalizations such as "the sale of just about anything through a local store will benefit the economy", you indulge in logical fallacies. Quite frankly, the whole recent crisis was build on the supposition that selling things will have to generate income. Seems logical, just that it isn't. It builds tremendous greed of the companies that focus on perfecting modern slavery and it forces governments to emit worthless papers with no backing in the factual state of the economy. People buy overpriced stuff with worthless papers and virtual money. The so-called rich of our times are often people sitting on a pile of nothing. It's not like in the old days when rich people actually had material valuables. Minerals, lands, artefacts, knowledge, weapons, genealogy... All of that was bought and sold so many times over that it either lost its worth or was monopolized. The world has changed and we are building bubble economies. It's bound to backfire sooner or later.
