3 ms·
Ask whom? The missing 10m? Might be hard. What with them being ‘missing’.
by jameshart 4y ago
Ask whom?
The missing 10m?
Might be hard. What with them being ‘missing’.
- yasp 4y agoOstensibly they are missing from the labor force, not from the planet.
- easythrees 4y agoHow many are dead or permanently disabled because of Covid, I wonder.
- red-iron-pine 4y agoCOVID has killed hundreds of thousands, but overwhelmingly older or weaker folks, the kinds who are retired, semi-retired, or on disability. This would have had an impact, but not 10 million
- Swizec 4y agoConsidering almost 7m people died from covid officially … Yeah they’re pretty missing https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-toll/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-... The Economist puts excess deaths at 20m https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...
- marginalia_nu 4y agoHow many of these dead people were of a working age?
- Swizec 4y agoEnough? Keep in mind we got some of the first ever basic human rights because there weren’t enough peasants after the black plague.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoI mean in the context of does it explain the absent workers?
- Nowado 4y agoIf you go with that excess deaths number, if the answer was 1/4 (which is what stats suggest) that covers half of the 10M. There's still the other half, but that's not nothing.
- Clubber 4y agoI would think that the older folks that died from Covid had some money to leave to their children or grandchildren, who use that to either take an extended vacation, or sabbatical or whatever. Just because they are old and weren't working doesn't mean their early death didn't have a monetary affect.
- jameshart 4y agoSo the trouble is, there's a lot more than 10m people outside the labor force of the relevant countries - that's true even if you only consider people who are actually in those countries, let alone the people who live in other countries who have not migrated there. The trick is figuring out which 10 million of those people are the ones who would have been participating in that labor force.
- VLM 4y agoWill HR permit hiring someone who was downsized or it not currently working in that role with that job title? Its all about risk minimization, not workforce maximization.
- moremetadata 4y agoNot really, going economically inactive is a rejection of the state of affairs. But some patterns or modus operandi have been going on for thousands of years, albeit reacting more quickly now a days due to improved forms of communication. >At airports people are employed to straighten suitcases after they tumble onto the baggage carousel. People need to recognise slavery and not be treated like a dog. The 1st world has its problems, but the planet has its problems, people need to look at things with a global perspective as well as a national perspective and read between the lines. The days of a job for life are over, the days of working in one country all your life are over. The need to retrain and remain up to date is a form of cutting the fat, a variation of survival of the fittest, but still survival of the fittest. Becoming cynical can be healthy a healthy attribute to have. The over aching desire to get people worshipping money couldnt be more on display that ever before. https://www.scmp.com/business/economy/article/1524064/sex-and-drugs-add-europes-murky-gdp-figures https://www.scmp.com/business/economy/article/1524064/sex-an... People need to make sure their lives are not stolen, because when you realise whats been done to you, its hard to recover from that. And as long as people continue to get away with stealing from others in legal ways, the fraud will continue.