Posted by: Aldaris
« on: July 13, 2012, 04:43:59 AM »Or, you know, working in civillian manufacturing producing, say, consumer electronics. Or diapers.
Posted by: o_O
« on: July 06, 2012, 07:56:08 PM »I would think 'available workers' means the amount of labor you could find at a World War 2 level of full mobilization. 10% available workers doesn't mean 10% unemployment, some of those people are staying at home raising kids or retired or working part time.
Posted by: Person012345
« on: July 06, 2012, 05:15:41 PM »I tend to assume that the unutilized workforce is actually just working in civilian operations. Like they're manufacturing space-computers or something. They're not actually unemployed, they're just not working for you.I assume that's what "services" is. I think the available is unemployed. I mean, it's usually maybe 10% of your population or so? For me it's around that anyway. Which is a perfectly reasonable unemployment rate for an advanced planetary society. Of course, the exact rate you'd expect would depend on what you're RPing, but it's at 8.2% in the UK at the moment for example (April 2012).
Which is still unacceptable, of course.
Posted by: Moonshadow101
« on: July 06, 2012, 04:55:46 PM »I tend to assume that the unutilized workforce is actually just working in civilian operations. Like they're manufacturing space-computers or something. They're not actually unemployed, they're just not working for you.
Which is still unacceptable, of course.
Which is still unacceptable, of course.
Posted by: Erik L
« on: July 04, 2012, 06:23:08 PM »does unemployment have any negative effects such as a drain on wealth?
No. It just means you can expand your facilities and put the lazy bums to work.
Posted by: aPPle
« on: July 04, 2012, 06:13:16 PM »does unemployment have any negative effects such as a drain on wealth?
