Great observation Beachshack, just confirms that you have NFI
1. You Said: "Small business doesn't hire the same way large corporate businesses do. The typical US small business listed above has 2 to 20 employees (the vast, vast majority of small businesses have ZERO employees and are one man businesses based at home). So the idea that they are going to sign up and pay thousands to hire people for jobs they don't have is interesting but unlikely".
Let me refer you to:
http://www.census.gov/econ/susb/methodology.html.
What's the population of Australia? well it's still significantly smaller then amount of people in employment in just 20-99 & 100-499 bracket of small business in the US.
Were talking 35 million people employed in the small business bracket sure beats what you said 'ZERO employees' LOL
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What is your point?
3. You said: "Carnegie Mellon is not in Silicon Valley. Neither is the Australian University mentioned above".
Does it not say Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley below? LOL
