One old liberal (now deceased) thought I was nuts because I suggested to him that there could never be any honesty in an unemployment report based on counting GOVERNMENT workers as employed! It sounds perfectly sane to me since government employees including military are paid with tax money and generally don’t produce wealth but in many cases destroy or consume wealth. Suppose we just put everyone on the government payroll at some level, local, state or federal. There would be instant ZERO unemployment but would it really solve any problems? I don’t think so. If the department of agriculture produced food, fiber and timber rather than being paid to harass those who actually do then I might think differently.
But that is just what the marxists propose.
Everybody to be "employed" by the state. All land and property and businesses owned by the state. Since the wealthy business owners are "hoarding" wealth. The government will "create" jobs that the "greedy" rich won't.
Never mind the fact that if the "greedy rich" were really as greedy as proclaimed, and were getting rich off all the labor of the workers, then they would be "creating" those very jobs and getting even "richer" off the labor of even more workers.
The fact that the "greedy rich" aren't "creating" more jobs, too make even more money, suggests that if more jobs WERE "created", they would lose money instead of make money.
Typical marxist mentality. Buy high, sell low, make it up in volume.
Buy materials at high prices (to take care of our buddies)
Hire lots and lots of workers, so they can buy all our goods.
Then sell all the goods at low prices to the workers.
More workers means more volume.
See? Simple marxist math.