A person walking along, drops a soft drink bottle. Then someone else, drops a garbage bag.

A job has just been created-someone needs to pick up the litter.

The government prints a years worth of money for the worker.

The economy grows.

Remember, work and hard effort is a virtue.

:p

Funny stuff

So that is how it works in your country?

Here the trash remains on the street, nobody gets employed and those welfare recipients actually coerced to pick up the trash find a million excuses why they cannot do it. At the same time we import thousands of Polish seasonal workers for harvesting cherries, apples, plums and asparagus. Harvesting asparagus is one of the most straining imaginable jobs. While Poles can live comfortably with the money the earn in one harvest season every German worker still ends up well below the poverty line without additional welfare payments. And both countries are in the European Union. That is why this construct will fail pretty soon.

That is messed up. Why hire foreign workers when there are people needing work in the country?!

That is messed up. Why hire foreign workers when there are people needing work in the country?!

Because of: :jew:

At the same time we import thousands of Polish seasonal workers for harvesting cherries, apples, plums and asparagus.

You're lucky then. We import Jamaicans.

There are a lot of Jamaicans in the Vancouver area, cosmo? I thought it was mostly a haven for Asians who get there from Asia and don't want to move to other parts of Canada (because everyone they knew back in hong kong is already there).

That is messed up. Why hire foreign workers when there are people needing work in the country?!
German cannot really live on 2 Euro an hour, especially not if you have a family - Poles can do so comfortably. That is why even medical doctors, lawyers and engineers come here to harvest asparagus.

There are a lot of Jamaicans in the Vancouver area, cosmo? I thought it was mostly a haven for Asians who get there from Asia and don't want to move to other parts of Canada (because everyone they knew back in hong kong is already there).

Not in Vancouver. I think they go into the interior of BC to pick apples. They imported to work on farms where the wage is very low.

German cannot really live on 2 Euro an hour, especially not if you have a family - Poles can do so comfortably. That is why even medical doctors, lawyers and engineers come here to harvest asparagus.

This indicates serious problems in the German and Polish economies. I'd venture to say Germany is experiencing welfare state, deficit-driven inflation and Poland is experiencing a breakdown in the division of labor--I'm not sure why that would be happening.

Why hire foreign workers when there are people needing work in the country?!

It is cheaper.

Labor is anti-human. I'm all in favor of abolishing it.

I'd venture to say Germany is experiencing welfare state, deficit-driven inflation
You'd venture wrong. Germany is in the middle of a deflation.

You'd venture wrong. Germany is in the middle of a deflation.

German cannot really live on 2 Euro an hour, especially not if you have a family

We need to be careful to define our terms. The strict definition of deflation is a decrease in the money stock, a policy which I highly doubt your central bank is pursuing. If you use the more expansive and qualitative definition of deflation as too few dollars chasing too many goods, then your two statements above are inconsistent.

We need to be careful to define our terms. The strict definition of deflation is a decrease in the money stock, a policy which I highly doubt your central bank is pursuing. If you use the more expansive and qualitative definition of deflation as too few dollars chasing too many goods, then your two statements above are inconsistent.
Actually both is correct and there is no inconsistency. And which central bank are you talking about? Ever heard about the European Monetary Union - and the European Stability Pact? Money policy isn't defined nationally anymore.