94,000,000+ not in the workforce. Take half that and even half that again, and you’re above 5%.
It’s more likely that at least 10% of those people are out of work.
I don’t think the 94mm+ number includes part-timers, either.
We’re becoming fossilized. A museum. And in bringing serfs here to grovel for pittances, we’re going to be ripe for the pickings very soon.
Trump offers respite for a bit, but had I children coming of age now, I’d encourage them to leave. I just don’t know where they’d be safe anymore, if anywhere. In 10 years, we are going to be a 3rd world hell.
As the First World becomes the Third World and Moslem some of the currently Third world countries will be much better places to be, some because they are advancing and already protecting themselves from Moslems and from being occupied by the Riff Raff of the world, some because being third world is there not a terrible thing. Bring some first world talents with you and you can live well.
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck”.
-Robert A. Heinlein
((94 million people out of work force) x (~5.75 ft/person in height))/(5280 ft/mile) = ~102,000 mile of people stacked head to toe. Earth is ~25,0000 in circumference. (102,000 mile of people)/(25,000 miles around the earth) = ~ 4. So unemployed people in our country alone circumnavigates the globe 4x. WOW.
http://nypost.com/2016/07/09/labor-deptartments-job-numbers-might-as-well-come-from-a-lottery/
http://nypost.com/2016/05/07/job-growth-is-swirling-down-the-drain/