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nateglimsyesterday at 7:21 PM1 replyview on HN

> * Employment was 10x better than today, and not by today's way of counting (which don't count group x y and z)

I'm pretty sure we count unemployment the same way. Those groups are just larger now because of age, education and economic malaise.


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ijkyesterday at 8:26 PM

There were a lot of millennials at the time. Still are, it's just that they're pushing 40 instead of 14.