• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I think the key is that population growth is around .6% right now. So that’s over $2m a year, or rather 171,000 people per month.

    So assuming there were an average rate of retirements and kids getting older… id imagine any number less than 171,000 new jobs a month will result in higher unemployment over time.

    Maybe someone can point out why I’m wrong there. Could be missing something

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        21 hours ago

        Maybe 16. As 44 million people in this country weren’t born here ~14%. They marry in, or come on work Visas and become green cards/naturallized citizens.

        Note that population is greater than the number of people in 198 countries, for example, Canada, Poland, Ukraine, Afghanistan… all have less total population.

        When people ask how many people this administration is trying to persecute, the number is larger than that, because they are trying to strip citizenships from some people who were born here as well.

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      The only thing I can think that skews the data is that everyone is born but not everyone retires, so I’m not sure you can just say those cancel out.