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> Especially if you compare the US internationally, the average American is such a laggard at working in comparison In your own link, the US rate is well ahead
by dragonwriter 2y ago
> Especially if you compare the US internationally, the average American is such a laggard at working in comparison
In your own link, the US rate is well ahead of the World rate, not a laggard. You probably made the mistake of comparing the World rate on that page (which tracks using the World Bank 15-64 working age population definition) with the US headline labor force participation rate (which uses the 16-and-over population as the denominator, not 15-64). But there is country information on the same World Bank page using consistent labor force definition for comparison to avoid that problem.