It bugs me when I hear the right-wing propaganda engine refer to the wealthy as “job creators,” as though our economic well-being depended on appeasing them and encouraging them and generally admiring them. I think that whenever you pay your employees less-than-poverty-level wages, you deserve to be known for what you are: a poverty creator. You’re creating poverty, and thus, you’re creating a burden on society. It is you, and not the people you are impoverishing, who are the true parasite. Noble titles, like “job creator,” should be reserved for those who actually benefit society, and don’t just enrich themselves at society’s expense.
Alethian Worldview
If it's not reality, it's not the truth
“It bugs me when I hear the right-wing propaganda engine refer to the wealthy as “job creators,”
Yes, indeed, members of the plutocracy are capital accumulators, not job creators. The inexorable trend is for corporations to employ fewer and fewer workers, job destruction is more characteristic of individual capitalist enterprises than job creation. For example, the mining boom here in Australia created many jobs in building infrastructure, however that phase was relatively short-lived and the mining companies are already experimenting with robot trucks and other equipment, they wouldn’t employ a single human being if it were technically feasible.
When I was employed in manufacturing there were some times periods of intense pressure by corporate management to reduce the number of employees in my department, in the interests of ‘efficiency’. Staff reduction, even if counterproductive in the long run, always earned the approval of Head Office.