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If we say that four percent has to be unemployed, who would you choose to be unemployed in the rat race that is life? Just to turn the discussion into something
by danielscrubs 4y ago
If we say that four percent has to be unemployed, who would you choose to be unemployed in the rat race that is life? Just to turn the discussion into something productive.
- whatshisface 4y agoThat is not how fixed unemployment works, the cause of fixed unemployment is people who are in the process of switching between jobs. Permanently unemployed people would reduce labor force participation, not employment as it is measured.
- danielscrubs 4y agoOnly if they are not actively searching for a job. OECDs definition: “ The unemployed are people of working age who are _without work_ , are available for work, and have taken specific steps to find work.” This number for the year was around 4.7. Labor force participation would decrease when people retire or never needed to work in the first place. But I understand your point, it includes some people that will easily get a job but don’t have a job currently.
- whatshisface 4y agoSince people who have given up looking for work do not count towards the measured unemployment rate (and more to the point are not part of the concept of minimum unemployment), ex-cons are not a part of that notional 4%.
- danielscrubs 4y agoBut the ones in the article did search :)
- Cyberdog 4y agoThose who have enough wealth that they don't need employment to live comfortably. Not sure what this has to do with my post unless you were trying to argue that it's fine for ex-cons to be perpetually among the unemployed; in that case, the idea of our "corrections systems" helping people who do anti-social behavior become productive members of society again is even more of a sham that it already is, so why don't we just go ahead and give all felons the chair? Is the discussion not productive already?