Jobless exploited by worst long-term unemployment in 62 years?
To block this out for the theatrical release, put long-term unemployment over there, brandishing a whip over the jobless, compelling them to toil in its salt mines without enough food nor water.
No, scratch that, that’s work. Me, I’m stumped. Someone get that particular headline writer on the phone and ask him what that means, exactly.
As you say, they need a villain. So they anthropomorphize them as necessary.