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> In an economy where you can easily deliver packages or drive uber, there will always be close to zero unemployment. This number stopped making sense a few years ago.

Part time employment is roughly where it was in absolute numbers (not even per capita) in 2009. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12600000

> In a high inflation environment, one has to consume "strongly" just to maintain the same standards of living.

You're wrong here too. Here's a chart that's inflation-adjusted: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCEC96

> If you underreport inflation

Ah I see... your entire worldview is predicated on just assuming different facts than what your interlocutors are. Feel free to substantiate this rather fundamental claim.

> That is pop psychology at its worst. Nobody cares about feelings, you just need to look at the numbers in a critical way.

"Look at the numbers in a critical way" is an interesting framing of "make shit up."



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