So the ratio of workers to non-workers is lower, which increases fiscal pressures.
He describes his fellow non-workers so well you can see them standing before you, hungry, dirty, defiant.
In the UK, where the number of workers is set to diminish over the next two decades, future governments will have to think more about taxing non-workers.
EU regulations require that EU citizens who are non-workers resident in another member state for more than three months must be covered by their own insurance.
But, in fact, it was divided into three: the workers, the non-workers who had the time of their lives building snowmen, riding sledges and indulging in the kind of activity you normally have to go to the Alps to enjoy, and the non-workers who had a really rubbish time.
China has one scheme for urban workers, another for non-workers and a third for rural folk, each administered by separate city or county governments.
Perhaps the period from 1973-2007 wan anomalyand, and the ratio of workers to non-workers is regressing to a more realistic mean.
In a small way, the measures to cut German welfare benefits may help if they encourage more non-workers into the labour force and boost consumers' spending power.
We can't sustain a society in which people work for 42 years of their lives and live as dependents or non-workers for 43 years of their lives.
And since then Conservative ministers have repeatedly implied disdain, or at least a lower priority, for non-workers with references to policies to help "strivers" and "hard-working families".
While his father cautioned him to get a proper contract, his mother encouraged him to follow his passion and join the exclusive "club of non-workers" who can turn what they love into their source of income.
