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More than a fifth of UK adults not looking for work
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I wonder if it's people fed up with getting bounced around by zero hour contracts.
It's not fun making minimum wage with a boss that will only give you 8 random hours a week.
So they go "sod this, I'll live with my mum and help around the house until I can find a job that treats me properly"
That seems to be it. I remember being on the dole many moons ago and they'd go "you are overqualified for this but there's this job as a chicken de-boner..." I'd imagine a large section of the job market today is orders of magnitude worse with soul-crushing zero hours work.
I know a few people in situations like this. Living with family and ticking over on occasional informal cash in hand labour or on previously accumulated savings.