Some people say that there was no unemployment in the era of the planned economy, but let me tell you that the people who say this are pure ignorance and nonsense, and the employment rate in the era of the planned economy was very low, and at that time the peasants could only engage in agricultural production in the rural areas, and very few of them were workers, that is, a large number of people were engaged in agricultural production in the rural areas, and there was no opportunity for employment, so how could unemployment occur?
Moreover, at that time, there was no mechanization in the countryside, most of them were manual labor and manual labor, and the peasants at that time could only plant more than a dozen acres of land, that is, at that time, twenty or thirty acres of land consumed a labor force, and under this very low-energy labor production, a large amount of labor in the countryside was consumed, so at that time, the peasants could not earn much money by working for a year? You can't even earn the ration money for the production team, and you still owe the production team ration money after working for a year in the production team, do you think how cheap the labor force in the countryside was at that time, and how low the output rate of agricultural production was? If according to the standards of large-scale agriculture and modern agriculture at that time, 70 to 80 percent of the peasants at that time would be unemployed, because now one agricultural machine can top the labor of hundreds of rural laborers, that is to say, a large agricultural machine now does more work than the previous 100 rural laborers, and it does it well and quickly, so if according to the standards of modern agriculture, about 80 percent of the peasants were unemployed in the past, so it is pure nonsense to say that there were no unemployed at that time.
Moreover, at that time, a large number of urban youths were also unemployed, because there were not so many jobs in the cities at that time, so at that time, urban youths could only be allowed to go to the mountains and countryside to receive re-education from the poor and middle peasants, and this was the reason why urban youths went to the countryside to engage in agriculture at that time, and because the cities did not have so many jobs, urban youths were allowed to go to the countryside to engage in agriculture. Aren't you saying it's called unemployment? This is not called unemployment, but what is unemployment? Therefore, to say that there are no unemployed people in the planned economy is pure nonsense, and they are talking nonsense with their eyes open.
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