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Fumesucker

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11. If you wish to market nail guns in that manner then by all means please proceed

Reply to econoclast (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 16, 2013, 12:03 PM

Jan 2013

You could design and manufacture nail guns and then lease them on a profit sharing basis to carpenters, as the owner of the nail gun you get a percentage of any profits that accrue from the use of the nail gun.

I wish you luck with your plan.

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Our Economic Pickle: why we must make wages increase to match productivity increases. [View all] eridani Jan 2013 OP

Precisely Sherman A1 Jan 2013 #1

But WHY did productivity go up? econoclast Jan 2013 #2

Brilliant. Let's have fewer and fewer people making more and more stuff eridani Jan 2013 #3

Why? Recursion Jan 2013 #4

Indeed. If all the money is concentrated at the top-- eridani Jan 2013 #19

So you're saying that innovators should Theyletmeeatcake2 Jan 2013 #5

Wages are supposed to be tied to the value of what that worker produces jeff47 Jan 2013 #6

Actually not econoclast Jan 2013 #12

And the reduction in labor means you can pay the remaining workers more jeff47 Jan 2013 #16

Coupl'a points... econoclast Jan 2013 #17

Couple'a responses jeff47 Jan 2013 #18

Wait a minute. sulphurdunn Jan 2013 #7

Think it through ... econoclast Jan 2013 #14

not just the inventors bigapple1963 Jan 2013 #8

Your argument fails in its second sentence 1-Old-Man Jan 2013 #9

If you wish to market nail guns in that manner then by all means please proceed Fumesucker Jan 2013 #11

Um ..... Isn't that Rent-a-center econoclast Jan 2013 #13

But the inventor/developer only get paid once, Rent A Center buys the things they rent out Fumesucker Jan 2013 #15

FOX NEWS: Unions are of the DEBBILL Tsiyu Jan 2013 #10