Okay, but before you then extrapolate and dismiss the entire situation today as trivial, shouldn't you also look at wages and opportunity relative to inflation and the cost of necessities? Shouldn't the nature of the work (part-time vs. full-time, temporary vs. permanent) also be evaluated? These are hard metrics, for sure. But in a world with required unpaid internships, a "gig economy" that races to the bottom for pay, and astronomical costs for everything from education to shelter, overall unemployment rates only tell part of the story.