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> the employment rate, you are still either employed or not.

I know that, I didn't say otherwise, but having to have two jobs in order to make ends meet makes stats like the employment rate almost orthogonal to the economical and social "welfare" of the population.

Of course having no jobs at all it's worse, but hiding behind the mantra of "people are employed" without looking at how good or bad their socio-economic condition really is kind of misses the point.



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