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  • South Africa has attracted a lot of migrants looking for work from other African countries because its economy is in much better shape than theirs. It’s unclear to me if those migrants are among those being counted as unemployed.

    The article also mentions “informal employment.” In many southern African countries, people are making a living selling goods on the streets for which they don’t pay taxes. The “formal employment” numbers are grossly misleading.

    This article also relies heavily on the opinions of one expert who places a lot of blame on neoliberalism. It appears that Breakthrough News reports in a way that many Lemmy users would appreciate. That doesn’t guarantee that facts will be shared.

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  • I have noticed an uptick in the behavior that when you are backing out of a spot, people are more likely to speed up to get by you than stop and wait. When I can’t see what traffic is coming, I back up slowly until I can see. Recently, I had one guy honk to let me know he was going to speed past. Thanks, I guess?

    It’s difficult to discern if it’s statistically significant. Perhaps these are people who always back into their parking spaces due to automated parking on more vehicles. Maybe they have lost their empathy for people who back out of spaces. Meanwhile, I have to guess what they are doing and then wait for them when they suddenly stop and back up towards me to get into a spot they had driven past.