I suppose it’s in how you word it. I’ve given up on trying to get a job because there is no point in trying. I can’t afford to pay my rent, but I guess you could call that early retirement.

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cherryteastain 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Point of labor participation is that it's independent of whether you want to be employed or not.

	▲	overfeed 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You and gp agree that characterizing non-paticipation as (voluntary) "early retirement" is unsupported.

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mothballed 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If you can stomach it, the seafood canning and fishing industry in Alaska will usually (IDK what the situation is this year) hire anyone off the street, work them 16 hours a day for several months, and give them "free housing." You'll get dumped back in Seattle in several months with at least $10k in your pocket.

Edit: genuinely perplexed on the response. This saved my ass one winter when I had nothing for rent.

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kristianp 14 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Surely it's not actually 16 hours a day, that would leave maybe 6 hours for sleep after other needs are taken care of.

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insane_dreamer 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

my brother did that 20 years ago; I didn't realize it was still a thing today

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t-writescode 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I thought the fishing industry paid … way more than 10k / 3 months. Color me surprised o.O

	▲	satvikpendem 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's net after housing, perhaps a good deal depending on what your rent would've been otherwise.

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hawgWyld 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Am good to let Boomer and GenX capitalism implode

In an abstract way this is like cold world war 3 to me; the "casualties" all the unborn as birth rates collapse, the destruction of the environment/climate change replacing bombs, the intentional financial engineering of poverty mustard gas

Mathematically airtight eugenics; no surprise to this, you and your family did not make the list