>>2106366
They're employed, the industries just aren't as productive as they need to be anymore. As far as I can tell I beat my Russian overlords to industrializing and got really rich selling stuff to them, but now they're catching up and my businesses are getting bought out by foreign financial districts so profit margins are narrowing from the market reaching saturation, and money is leaving the economy to pay dividends to foreign investors. Capitalists still build stuff like crazy but their investments aren't paying off. Mass literacy also made people's expectations rise faster than their actual SoL. That's basically my entire population of laborers, and I can't afford a welfare state under these conditions.
