But it <i>never</i> works like that.  If I have a company, I&#x27;ll hire as many people as can produce more for me than they cost me.  If you reduce the amount they can produce, that means that <i>I will hire fewer people</i> - not because I&#x27;m evil and manipulative, but because that&#x27;s the way the economics works out for me, the employer.