This is the comment chain to which I was responding:

csomar: Also people who can’t find a job tend to be more vocal than the rest.

fragmede: Are they perhaps more vocal because they have *a lot of time on their hands?* (emphasis mine)

me: You mean spending all their time looking for a new job, applying for various benefits, doing side work as much as they can, at pay far lower than they're used to so it takes more hours of gig work to reach equilibrium?

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So, what I was responding to was the implication that unemployed or under-employed means that you've got a whole lot of free time, which can absolutely, positively be the opposite of true.

If one had a job that previously made end's meet and now all they've got is gig work, they're probably filling ALL of their time just to survive, and are probably still coming up short. That's what I meant.