A person who is looking for a full-time job that pays a living wage — but who can't find one — is unemployed.
Americans don't believe in a living wage. They believe in living on credit until the credit is exhausted and then going into default until debt collectors come after them. Then they believe in repenting, finding Jesus, and starting the cycle over again (or becoming homeless and dying).
You can flaunt this number in all your doomer glory, but you're not going to sell it until your audience actually sees unemployed people on the scale of 1 in 4 Americans. These statistics lack credibility absent some visual confirmation. Until legions of unemployed residents start marching through the streets, or homelessness gets significantly worse, this isn't going to register with anyone who hasn't already been left-pilled.
Americans don't believe in a living wage. They believe in living on credit until the credit is exhausted and then going into default until debt collectors come after them. Then they believe in repenting, finding Jesus, and starting the cycle over again (or becoming homeless and dying).
You can flaunt this number in all your doomer glory, but you're not going to sell it until your audience actually sees unemployed people on the scale of 1 in 4 Americans. These statistics lack credibility absent some visual confirmation. Until legions of unemployed residents start marching through the streets, or homelessness gets significantly worse, this isn't going to register with anyone who hasn't already been left-pilled.
It will register with the 1 in 4 Americans. They're really all we need.
It won't. They'll blame themselves. Blaming yourself is the American way.