If you're following financial markets, the Fed Reserve has been monitoring un/employment, wages, jobs as a key indicator of curbing inflation......On bloomberg this morning, the talking heads were struggling to understand how few jobless claims there have been given all of the Tech company layoffs.
In short, you're not unemployed if you're dead.
Fun project > Get Job/Unemployment data by country and overlay it with vaccination rates and excess mortality.
we would have noticed more deaths around us if these were in the working age range.
the elderly can die without much notice, for working age people, the moment those fall out a lot of people find out.
2020 lockdowns made a ton of people close to or at retirement age to call it quits. those same lockdowns caused the failure of a lot of businesses which made a lot of people look for an other source of income during that period too and Amazon bloating up an extra million workers.