re: Comparing the unemployment rates of the US and the EU

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I wonder how many people of working age, from 18-65, are unemployed? That is the real unemployment rate.
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That’s an irrelevant figure.


Your gaslighting it doesn't make it irrelevant.

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It is irrelevant as an economic indicator which is what the particular statistic is supposed to give insight too. People despite being in the 18-65 yo range are only unemployed in terms of an economic indicator if they do not have a job and want/need/should have a job. The last criterion is particularly sticky. A stay-at-home mom/housewife who has chosen not to work because, for example, her husband makes enough to support the family and they have chosen for her not to work should not be part of an economically important overall unemployment rate. A 1L in law school that does not have a job is similar. A 56yo who is retired comfortably and by choice is not a valid part of that statistic. A person that has been "properly" determined to be fully disabled should not be included either.

There are a myriad of examples for legitimate reasons to exclude people in the 18-65yo range in an unemployment statistic for the percentage of unemployed. Being pedantic like with the housewife is the gaslighting you accused the other poster of. I am not suggesting the numbers in the OP is accurate but including people like the homemaker who has chosen not to work and is provided for by her spouse is just as silly for economic purposes as the wife next door who has given up on finding a job not being included.

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Southern Europeans have a reputation for making industry and production a low priority in their daily lives.

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Something about having sex, bathing in pristine waters, eating fruit, drinking wine and having sex all day instead of working does sound sorta kinda good to me idk