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Elaborate?
by dpflan 3y ago
Elaborate?
- MichaelNolan 3y agoIt’s a quote from the book “1984”. Where a dystopian government routinely makes up fake numbers and even changes the numbers daily. The OP is either indicating that they don’t trust the government’s employment statistics, or the OP is indicating something along the lines of “yesterday we laid off 1000 workers, today we hired 500 workers” where the headline is +500 instead of -500.
- dpflan 3y agoThanks. Yes, I am aware of the origin and its implications, but was hoping the OP had more to it. I agree that it feels a bit manipulative, this "god number from the heavens". Here is the BLS' report: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm