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Re:SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce by antientropic on Saturday January 12, 2019 @06:58AM (#18890839)
> Unemployment in Europe as a whole (including Eastern Europe) is ~20%.

According to [1] unemployment in the EU-28 is actually 6.7% as of November 2018. Of course, there are some European countries that are not in the EU, but I doubt that including them will cause the figure to rise to 20%.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

> So for doing everything we do today, and for guaranteeing the future, we need around 25% of the human race. Everyone else is economically useless.

No, that does not follow. For example, a stay-at-home spouse who takes care of the kids may be "economically useless" in a very shallow sense (i.e. they do not appear in GDP figures), but that does not make them useless.

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Re:SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce by tyfon on Saturday January 12, 2019 @07:56AM (#18890988)
In Norway, staying at home with kids and managing the house is counted as work and you get "pension points" for it just like a regular job.

But they do not appear in the GDP figures of course.

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