American Exceptionalism
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/23647754
some sources
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4359594-real-unemployment-rate-is-21-percent-and-heading-higher
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/30/what-its-like-to-be-evicted-during-the-coivd-19-pandemic.html
https://firstfocus.org/update/nearly-5-million-children-have-lost-health-care-due-to-unwinding/
https://jedfoundation.org/mental-health-and-suicide-statistics/
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Now hold on. I think you can make good arguments here without using a 2020 pandemic unemployment rate per your first article. The current "real" unemployment rate is around 8%. Arguably a little higher due to under reporting. This includes folks who are underemployed or discouraged job seekers.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
You could argue that the broken social contract makes employment ineffective or doesn't grant the same promises as it used to. You could argue that workers don't see the benefits they deserve or that unemployment is not a good measure of people's well-being.
We don't have to misrepresent facts to make arguments.
It's almost half that at 4.2% as of Nov.2024.
The link I posted says 7.8, seasonally adjusted. It's the bottom-right-most cell in the table
If we all Gale ourselves they'll have no one to make them money. They also lack any real skills so won't be able to rebuild.
Is Gale a typo or a euphemism?
Its a spoiler for bg3 if anything
My suggestion is to switch to a new monetary system. They are not invited. A system with built in safeguards.
Sounds like pre-2019 cryptobro talk. But I'm game as long as we focus on Monero only
Well, a decentralized digital currency would probably be best for this. The cryptobros are aldo part of the group that’s not invited.
The population would need to collectively decide to not work for them but that won't happen because there's always scabs.