Episode description

"Well kept gardens die by pacifism", the real unemployment numbers, and David Graeber's - A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse.  "Huge swaths of people spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed".  

U-3 vs U-6 - The U-3 unemployment rate, or U3 rate, is the most commonly reported rate of unemployment in the United States and represents the number of people actively seeking a job. The U-6 rate, or U6, includes discouraged, underemployed, and unemployed workers in the country. 

SOURCES - 

The economy added 1.4 million jobs in August, and the unemployment rate fell below 10 percent

Explainer: Why unemployment rate doesn't capture the true state of the coronavirus economy

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION — AUGUST 2020

A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse