> Tell me why they shouldn’t count the hopeless as unemployed? Because “Words Mean Things”. Every single country’s government that I could find - including no

> Tell me why they shouldn’t count the hopeless as unemployed? Because “Words Mean Things”. Every single country’s government that I could find - including non English speaking countries (I just looked up the definition in Japan) define unemployment the same way. The unemployment, the homeless and the labor participation rate are all statistics that are reported by the government and one isn’t ignoring the other. And you don’t think it is “unreasonable” to make up definitions instead of using ones that are accepted globally?