Bamse, Milton Friedman och Don Boudreaux om jobbskapande

Ur Bamse nr 11 1982:

[Lille Skutt] får låna Meka-Nicke och låter honom arbeta istället för att själv göra jobbet i morotslandet. Snart tröttnar han dock på att inte arbeta och lämnar tillbaka roboten till Skalman, som anade att det skulle hända. Krösus blir intresserad av maskinen men får inte köpa den eftersom tre arbetare då skulle mista sina jobb.

Milton Friedman - från Mark J. Perry:

While traveling by car during one of his many overseas travels, Professor Milton Friedman spotted scores of road builders moving earth with shovels instead of modern machinery. When he asked why powerful equipment wasn’t used instead of so many laborers, his host told him it was to keep employment high in the construction industry. If they used tractors or modern road building equipment, fewer people would have jobs was his host’s logic.

"Then instead of shovels, why don’t you give them spoons and create even more jobs?" Friedman inquired.

Don Boudreaux (där hela inlägget rekommenderas):

You must, indeed, be distressed as you observe the appalling amount of labor-saving technologies in use throughout our economy.  It is, alas, a disturbing trend that has been around for quite some time – since, really, the invention of the spear which destroyed the jobs of some hunters.