This is a fun trope- "the US unemployment rate is made up and let me give you reasons it may not be accurate..." Yes, turns out that there are a LOT of ways to

This is a fun trope- "the US unemployment rate is made up and let me give you reasons it may not be accurate..." Yes, turns out that there are a LOT of ways to measure this, and the people whose jobs it is to do so have chosen some, and even laid out the pros and cons of each of them. Yes, the definition of unemployment that you usually hear (U3) has things it doesn't count. But those choices were made intentionally because they thought it was more useful this way... not because they are too stupid to understand this, or because of a vast conspiracy.