Stop Saying “Job Creator”

> erasing everyone else who made the job possible: the dozens of educators who taught the worker from pre-Kindergarten through postsecondary education, the road crew members who paved the streets to the job site, the nannies and care workers who enable a parent to go to work — not to mention the worker filling the position

A meal is made of ingredients. It takes a chef to make a good meal out of ingredients, who would have to apply a lot of skill and energy to do it well. The author of the article, it seems, would argue that there is no value in that. The chef is not the "meal creator", because s/he did not create the carrot and the oil and the stove. Which is of course true on some level, but also useless as an argument for any sensible thing.

The job creator typically does not create just the job, s/he creates the company, which has to create value on the scale that transcends anything a person can do on their own. (Hence the company, a collection of people working on a common goal.) Job creators apply immense amount of thought, risk, and investment into doing this right. Job creators multiply the contribution of pavers and nannies, build on that, utilize it in a most efficient way.

I believe that this article is insincere demagogy.

Neoliberal propaganda has become so ubiquitous that we don’t even notice it unless someone calls it out, like this article does. It’s a thoroughly depressing state of affairs.