### Comment:
44% of working age adults are not participating in the workforce. Many are on permanent disability after a robot took their manufacturing job. Unemployment numbers are meaningless.

### REPLY:
Permanent disability is an economic money faucet.  Those people are technically still in the workforce if you define the workforce as people collecting and spending money.  Same with people on welfare.  Productivity is a bullshit metric.  Like some asshole who spends 95% of his working day on reddit is somehow contributing more than some loser on welfare.  The only difference is the size of the paycheck that they turn around and spend.

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