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i caution people to be careful when trying to use this to draw conclusions about people's behavior. the argument here is that the united states metric for unemployment is fundamentally flawed, and that's basically true. it does not appropriately capture precarity in a world where wage labor is so heavily gradated and not a binary between unemployed and full employed. the problem is that it's not particularly worse now. we can say that true unemployment is 24% right now and that's horrible and precarious. but also by this person's metric, it is still down relative to previous years. so people embracing fascism, not really explainable just by this alone, as it has been the case since the 90's that true unemployment by this metric is 20+% in the u.s.a. from what i can see in the data presented, among white people and in general, the difference between the true and reported metrics is relatively constant over time, whereas a recent spike in that difference would indicate a spike in precarity that is unreported by the conventionally reported metric.