Salvar Empregos

No seguimento do que o Manuel Pinheiro descreveu aqui, uma descrição resumida das razões pelas quais a actual tentativa desesperada de salvar certos empregos só faz sentido porque, à falta de melhor, somos governados pelas estatísticas:

"If firms can’t cut their payrolls, they will have to absorb the collapse in profits by cutting back investment spending, which eventually will put jobs on the line. [...] Weak profits mean cuts in capital spending. Final demand will suffer, whichever way you cut it. What’s worse is that the two-tier jobs markets (protected insiders and unprotected contract workers) that exist in many countries mean those that do lose their jobs may be the most productive workers. That cannot be something to celebrate."