why puerto rico was ripe for bio-tyranny and lessons for the rest of the US
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anatomy of a dependency culture
why puerto rico was ripe for bio-tyranny and lessons for the rest of the US
they call the unemployment rate 8.4%, but that’s an absurdity because the labor force is so small.
it’s only 38% of the population (vs ~50% for the US as a whole).
969k are employed out of 2.76 million. so right there, 75% of people do not work.
the “employed rate” is 25%.
of the 25% who work, 23% work for the government.
so only 19% of this island has a non government job.
46% of the island is on medicaid. another 20% is on medicare. so 2/3’s of the island is dependent on federal health benefits.
40% of the island gets NAP.
it’s hard to even get figures for the rest of the welfare state dependency.
but it’s so common and so egregious you have to plan around it. with the boosted welfare rates under covid, every time the checks went out, uber stopped working for a week as so few drivers bothered signing on. when uber drivers started getting PPP loans, uber basically stopped working altogether. even at quadruple rates, you could not get a ride.
every restaurant on the island struggled to staff even when open at 50% capacity limits. no one was working. no one would even apply.
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