Yeah the lot is admittedly not very lit . <| sep |> No it fucking didnt dude . I will tell you exactly where that number came from . They took census data and manipulated it . The total number of Americans over aged 16 , and therefore eligible to work , is about 243 million . The number of Americans in the work force is 156 million . They subracted that from the other . The thing is , my 93 year old grandmother isn ' t in the workforce , and has no fucking desire to work . In fact there are 40 million Americans aged 65 and older , the vast majority of whom are retired by choice . Then you get into people who have retired before 65 , college students , Americans aged 1618 who don ' t want to work , medical students , law students , people pursuing a graduate degree , people on disability , and yeah , that number gets whittled down pretty fucking quit . The problem with you is that you are apparently incapable of discerning what reality actually is .