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by ZoomerCretin 977 days ago
> You might not have thought that through - if you actually did that, then everything costs more, and there is no net change in affordability. All you did was cause inflation.

Is your mental model of goods and services that 100% of the cost is labor, and that everything is sold at-cost?

This makes absolutely no sense.

Unemployment is a flawed metric. Prime age employment captures everyone, not just those who fall under the government's many convenient exceptions.