09-02-2007, 06:21 PM
Quote: The ways the money returns to the economy, and grow it overall, are less obvious.
Returns to somewhere else... Which is akin to immigrants funneling it out of the country.
While you claim that people saving money put it right back into the economy, there is a net loss of it in the community, due to the loss of jobs, businesses, and the inefficiency that surrounds running small stores. When the majority of the commerce was done by those stores, money does not leave the community - it circulates within it. With the international corpo-sprawl setting up a branch, that money does start leaving it, heading somewhere in the direction of the central office, and it's shareholders.
Of course there's a benefit... To other people.