the fallacy that people who answer the phone are no longer operators pulling out cords and plugging them in to other cords. tucker: i understand. the unemployment rate is one aof many measures and it s a pretty imprecise measure, as you know. okay, there is 150 million people with jobs in this country, which means despite losing millions of jobs due to technology, we have added tens of millions of jobs h tucker: but wages, hold on. but what you are not taking account of, of course, are the people who are out of labor market for good, who really should be in the labor market, and there are many millions of them.f but also you are not taking into account what they make. so wages at the lower end decades. haven t really moved for decades.or here i am making the old fashioned democratic argument, but it s true. my question is, how does addingke more people to the labor market help? i m not saying they are not going be jobs you are making a fallacy when say that we re going to l