Let's say the economy is your Github repo. And unemployment is open issues. But there are too many open issues so you set up a bot to automatically close stale

Let's say the economy is your Github repo. And unemployment is open issues. But there are too many open issues so you set up a bot to automatically close stale issues. So if you ignore something long enough, it goes away. Nice. U3 (the official unemployment rate) excludes people who have been unemployed too long, that is "stale" or "discouraged workers".