Originally Posted by TheSquealer

There is a reason this wasn't published on TED's site. Its all bullshit and bullshit politics making a retarded "chicken or the egg" argument that consumers create jobs by virtue of the fact that they buy products. Well... should be pretty fucking obvious that BEFORE consumers have a product to buy, someone has to invest/risk a lot of capital to make that product available. It's obviously not the consumers doing that.

I started a business a year ago. I risked my money. I lost piles of money to create a service. A year later, we're doing ok. We've hired people and the business is in the black. Consumers didn't create my business. Consumers didn't fund my business. Consumers didn't write me a check to risk for a year of stress and headaches and hair loss. I did that all on my own, at my expense because I wanted to create something I believed in and that I enjoyed doing. No consumer did it for me. The jobs we create are because I risked it all. Because I risked my money. Because I had the balls to make go for it and make it happen.

The fact that you think he is doing a "great job" is pretty telling. Just like any other biased idiot challenging obvious facts, he leads with stupid analogies like believing the earth is flat as if that gives merit to anything he's saying. When you open by heading down that path (as conspiracy theorists love to do), then your argument is obviously weak and has little merit on its own.