You call yourself a comrade and you’re coming to bat for the democrats using GDP Stats? I understand wanting to work within the system but the democrats are not our friends, they certainly aren’t socialists. They are funded by the same corporations that the republicans are. Read more Marx.
I don’t think you have. In fact I think there’s something very wrong with supposedly economically minded people when unemployment is close to or below 5%, and they speak or behave as though that’s not something good.
I’ll save you the trouble of googling. Whether under capitalism or socialism some percentage of your workforce is always in transition between jobs. It can be training, parental leave, whatever, point is economists think that percentage is at least 5%.
And to push passed 5%, employers start offering incentives. Better hours, awards of excellence and importantly MORE PAY. If you wanna be a leftist who thinks more pay is bad for workers, go right ahead. The last guy pushed a paper whose own authors had refuted at a later date.
U3 unemployment can be quite misleading when looking at the economic prospects of the populace, as it excludes some classes of the unemployed, the underemployed, and those that are employed but still in poverty. I don’t wholly disagree with you but that statistic paints an artificially rosy picture.
Not to mention Harris had very solid, fully fleshed out plans on how to make housing more accessible and affordable while taking power away from LLCs and windfall taxes for grocery stores overcharging (which worked for Canada while I was living there)
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