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tim333yesterday at 8:43 PM1 replyview on HN

Not necessarily. In the UK:

> Over one million young people in this country are now neither employed, in education nor in training...

yet no starvation. I'm not sure it's a good situation but it is what it is.


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robotresearcheryesterday at 9:00 PM

For context, the UK unemployment level is pretty low compared to the last 55 years of history.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotin...

One million is a lot of people, but that's from a population of ~70 million.

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