Comment on More than a fifth of UK adults not looking for work

• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  These figures never make any sense because they include people who are unable to work.

  Yes that’s right people who are unable to work are not looking for work. Ugh really?

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  • yeah@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It tracks tho. Political opinion seems to be that no one is really incapable of work so everyone should be included in the figures. Sigh.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe we should give everyone and go at being PM. I mean you can’t be that hard.

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  • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I guess that’s why unemployed is a more often cited number than this one. But surely it is interesting non the less to know how much of the workforce isn’t looking for work?

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The issue is it doesn’t differentiate between people who are not working because they’re 95 years old and people who are not working because they are sick.

      If you’re trying to make policy decisions based on this data it’s literally useless. Maybe you have a very old population maybe you will have a very unwell population. Who knows.

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      • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t understand. The amount of people not in work I guess is used to look about how taxes relate overall population to workers. That’s important.

        But like what you are saying that why unemployment figures are used and not number of people in work. Not of people not in work is more of a newspaper headline than anything governments look at.

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