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> 7% (or whatever -- pick your favorite metric)

If you add 4.8% people on well-fare, 2% convicts, some percentage of people that sustain themselves via petty crimes, and large number of government employees that don't do anything actually useful and also employees that are employed by private sector and their employer would like to fire them because they cost more then they are worth, but can't fire them due to various mass agreement, union restrictions and general PR ..... you end up with pretty high number number.




Indeed, "unemployment" is notoriously hard to quanitfy. My point was simply that it's currently "high" relative to the two decades before 2008.




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