People get hired off the 2% because that’s a baseline level of growth. When the economy is in deflation people will constantly get fired every year, growth basi

People get hired off the 2% because that’s a baseline level of growth. When the economy is in deflation people will constantly get fired every year, growth basically stops, and you end up with a highly risk averse Japan-type situation. This is a drastic oversimplification but that’s basically it