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Soo was it more or less than that? Don’t leave us hanging like that!

• forgetfreeman 1mo ago
  Significantly less. Wanted a job? Walk through any neighborhood being built with a tape measure in your pocket. You'd have a job doing something before you made it past the 4th house. Had a car? Delivering food paid enough to afford a modest apartment.
  • a3w 1mo ago
    "Able to work and wanting a job you would like" probably meant 30 % unemployment is realistic, though? Half the population is female and doing much unpaid labor, so I find this kind of numbers convincing. Oh, I just noticed: And unpaid labour, pun intended.
    • forgetfreeman 1mo ago
      "would like" is pretty wild in this context. The number of individuals who have had a job they truly enjoyed is a rounding error in recorded history. I'll save us both the indignity of repeating tired boomer tropes around modern attitudes towards work.
      • MajorTakeaway 1mo ago
        It really would, most boomers seem to also think living alone while not having a girlfriend is very odd and shocking (still). Most worldviews do not and will not add up to reality.
• runako 1mo ago
  A popular comedy skit in the '90s was around the notion that people had more jobs than they wanted. 1999 was basically ~full employment in the US. Most people who wanted to work had a job.