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Same issue in my country with employment rates. Yes, some of those have been looking for work for so long that they slide from looking to "not looking" automat
by b112 7mo ago
Same issue in my country with employment rates. Yes, some of those have been looking for work for so long that they slide from looking to "not looking" automatically. However at the same time, some of those people actually don't want to work.
And if they don't want to work, why would that impinge upon full employment, because what is the plan? Force people to work who are retired, or don't want to? Work or go to jail? "Full employment" is always presumed to be "people wanting to work can find it".
- AlexCoventry 7mo agoGiving up looking is not necessarily the same as not wanting a job.
- b112 7mo agoYes, that's why I specifically mentioned it. If the best data you have is conjoined, then you must either figure it out, or ignore it. Do you know what percentage, exactly, are retired vs "giving uo"? No? Then when someone says full employment, they're right unless you have specific and precise data to counter that. We could also discuss people too sick to work. Or on maternity leave. Or wealth vs desire to work. Or 100 other factors.
- xp84 7mo ago> Then when someone says full employment, they're right unless That's odd. The burden of proof is not exclusively on one side.
- b112 7mo agoThe burden of proof is predicated upon a well established economic terms. You want to refute those century+ old definitions? Alter them? Then yes, you have to start the dance. And work at it. And convince the entire planet to change.