Yes. Once again we get into the difference between "jobs" and "opportunity."
You were the one blurring it in the first place.
However, for opportunities for creating new companies (new technologies, new business models, new industries) there is far more venture capital available here than anywhere else in the world.
Which makes the fact that America provides less opportunity for its citizens than other places with far less venture capital very interesting. (For a while, after WWII, it looked as if America was going to take over the world by providing such opportunity to its citizens, a factor which would outweigh its supposed disadvantages in low population and accumulated deadweight infrastructure. What happened instead has fascinated many researchers).
But it doesn't matter. You asserted that the US provides more opportunity in return for greater odds of failure. That assertion was false - the US provides less opportunity for its citizens than several other First World (and some Second World) countries. (It does provide more chance of failure, partly due to its lack of a safety net for the consequences of bad luck). Your posting of job numbers merely reinforced that observation, which is common knowledge among social and economic researchers in the US and elsewhere.
Of course it is. People with jobs have more opportunities than people who don't. I am sure you realize this.
It's not true.
It's so far from being true that seeing it asserted becomes a separate issue itself.
But it does explain your attempt to demonstrate American opportunity by listing high tech employers who provide jobs of some kind to some people who might be American. That was odd of you, but now I understand what in hell you could have been thinking.
FYI: People forced to work long hours at bad jobs with no health care and insufficient wages to support significant savings - a situation more common in America than in many other places - have reduced opportunities compared with the unemployed who can afford to work at their own projects and set up better lives for themselves. People who can't afford to quit their jobs have reduced opportunity compared with the unemployed, who can at least travel and seek their fortune. And so forth.
Work does not make free. In the case of America, it doesn't even make prosperous. It sure as hell doesn't provide opportunity for most Americans - it's a burden, a cost of living, not an asset, for the large majority of US citizens.
And that delusion - that America is some kind of comparative wellspring of opportunity for its citizens, which hasn't been true even for white men since Reagan broke the unions - does seem to underlie the American tolerance of flagrant and venal and odious misgovernance that has led to the finest medical care and public health system the planet had ever seen becoming a free fire zone for a standard issue viral plague, a country in which the President holds medical supplies hostage for political favors and personal gain while frontline nurses in plague zones rig protective garments from garbage bags, a country in which basic information such as who is infected and who is not is unavailable to a public whose rate of death is being balanced against stock price trends by its elected representatives.
