You Can Help Save Jobs, Possibly Your Own for 44 Cents

Help the economy, save jobs, and probably create new jobs for 44 cents, by using a “real trickle down” approach. By buying 44 cent postage stamps to mail your bills each month! No we don’t work at the post office but we can explain how a stamp can save jobs.

Major corporations, insurance companies, banks and credit card companies and utilities encourage you to pay your bills online or with automatic bill paying directly from your bank account, with intimidation lines such as “save a stamp” or “save the environment”. What they are really saying is “save us money” by eliminating jobs. Big business doesn’t give a hoot about saving you money or the environment! They only care about “big profits”.

The problem here is two fold in nature. One: big business eliminates jobs; and Two; consumers save excessively. So why is saving money a problem? To British economist John Keynes, excessive saving, i.e. saving beyond planned investment, was a serious problem encouraging recession or even depression. You can read the Wiki article here but be forewarned, it is “heavy” reading.

So let’s see how many jobs the purchase of a stamp includes.

The first job you save is the postal worker you bought the stamp from. But wait, someone had to print the stamp; that’s 2 jobs. Someone had to make the paper the stamp is printed on; that’s 3 jobs. Someone had to make the glue to affix the stamp to the envelope; 4 jobs. Oh yeah, what about the envelope the company sent you? Someone had to run a machine to make the envelope; 5 jobs. Someone had to maintain the machine that made the envelope; 6 jobs. More glue for the envelopes; 8 jobs. You need oil for the machine that makes the envelope; 9 jobs. You will at sometime need parts for machines when they break down. Someone had to make or import those parts; 10 jobs. Those parts had to be delivered; 11 jobs. The delivery truck needed to be built; how many jobs did you save there? The letter carrier that delivered the bill to you, also the carrier that delivered the bill to them. They need trucks; the trucks need to be maintained. Office workers open bills and enter the data etc. etc. etc. By this point you should see just how far down the work chain a postage stamp goes. Did any of these jobs include you? The more jobs we lose the more chance you will be next in the unemployment line.

So, you can see how a postage stamp can help the economy and save many jobs through “trickle down”. You can also see how big business tries to intimidate you with save the planet tactics. They do not care about you or the planet. They only care about your money!