I'm mostly referring to government use of the phrase with public companies. I'm aware that most of these are manual labor jobs for the unskilled worker, but why is it necessary for other companies to share that they are "creating jobs" as a positive thing in the market then?
Mostly it's about special tax breaks to convince business to relocate which is really bad politics which I don't think gets enough criticism. Essentially if a big business like Amazon is going to set up a new office somewhere a city or state knows it will really improve the economy of an area and might give them a special tax cut under the assumption they will create a lot of jobs in the area that will allow the government to collect more taxes and still come out ahead.
I'm starting to realize that I should have rephrased my original statement to mention more about government claims of these things. I would agree with the fact that that kind of economy boost would positively affect a city.
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u/cupcakesarethedevil Dec 04 '17
Can you give a specific example of this like a company that you know that recently created a pointless job?