What does 'retired my wife' mean in this context?
By the time Covid lifted, we had decided to fly around the country taking one way trips and she was deeply into her passion projects.
We got rid of everything we owned that wouldn’t fit into 4 suitcases. Our official home was our vacation home in (state tax free) Florida that was being rented out while we were traveling as a short term rental.
The “state tax free” came in handy when I was getting RSUs/pro rated signing bonuses
States typically define residency as either based on domicile, or a statute. In other words, some of the states you "traveled" to undoubtedly have laws stating that if you are in the state for a certain number of days out of the year, you are automatically a resident, not a visitor, and liable for taxes on your world-wide income.
It just happens to be a moot point in Nevada and Texas since they were both state tax free states.
When we do it again probably in summer 2027, those also happen to be the two states we will be spending the majority of our time. My wife knows a lot of people in both states
Honestly, though her spending money was a matter of selling 2 shares of AMZN pre split every six months when I was getting RSUs.
We cut our fixed expenses dramatically after Covid and our younger son graduated, downsizing and moving to a state tax free state.
[1] Kagi's response provided by WordsAPI, I'm not sure if linking a technically paywalled would be the reasonable thing https://kagi.com/search?q=unemployed+meaning
[2] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/unemploy...
The official definition as far as the BLS.
http://www.mississippi.edu/urc/downloads/econ101-01_151118.p...
> Finally, other individuals who are not working or seeking work for pay or profit are not included in the labor force.
> BLS considers the unemployed as those individuals without a job who have looked for one in the past four weeks and are available to work. Looking for work involves an individual taking some action to obtain a job, such as completing an application, sending out a resume,contacting an employment center, etc. Individuals who have been temporarily laid off are considered unemployed regardless if they have looked for work in the last four week
This is the same definition the UK uses
https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/employmentandlabourmarket/p...
Australia
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/detailed-methodology-infor....
And the international OECD
https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/unemployment-rate.ht...
I couldn’t find a single English speaking country that didn’t use the same definition.
The percentage of people who are working/total adult population or a subset is the labor participation rate.
Why would the OECD want things to look “rosy”?
And how would someone “find a job” if they aren’t actively looking?
What exactly is “the government” if it’s not “the people”? Every country I cited is one where the government is democratically elected.
We should instead use a definition that a random person on HN think is more appropriate?
Tell me why they shouldn’t count the hopeless as unemployed?
Because “Words Mean Things”. Every single country’s government that I could find - including non English speaking countries (I just looked up the definition in Japan) define unemployment the same way.
The unemployment, the homeless and the labor participation rate are all statistics that are reported by the government and one isn’t ignoring the other.
And you don’t think it is “unreasonable” to make up definitions instead of using ones that are accepted globally?