What should strong, stupid men do?
Male participation in the economy peaked in the 1950s. It began to decline as the USA automated agriculture.
Millions of years of evolution gave us some men who are very strong, but very stupid. There used to be an abundance of jobs for such men. Agriculture, in particular, provided endless jobs for such people.
Some of these jobs paid surprisingly well.
When I was very young, I spent 6 summer/winter cycles working at Mack's Apples:
https://macksapples.com/
They paid piece rate. You got $1.25 per bucket of apple's that you picked. You could make $14 an hour, then; adjusting for inflation that's about $24 an hour now.
I'm not especially strong, nor especially stupid, but I was able to make decent money, back before I got started in tech. It was the best paying job available to me, back then. Those jobs no longer exist. (That apple orchard focused on "Pick Your Own Apples" where the gross margins are better, plus they planted a few short trees that could be easily harvested by untrained high school students. The orchard cut down most of the big trees, because those trees required skill to harvest.)
But again, what should we do with very strong, very stupid men? There used to be an abundance of jobs for them, some of which paid well. Nowadays there are no jobs for them.
I can't see how or when this trend reverses. The era of good paying jobs for stupid people has ended, and I don't know how it could ever come back.
See the chart here:
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2007/jan/wk2/art03.htm
You can plainly see that men have been leaving the labor force since the 1950s. Recent events are less influential than the overall trend, which was more dramatic during 1950-1990.
The loss of agriculture was huge, and then later the deindustrialization.
Seriously, it is going to take some real imagination to create a positive vision for stupid people in the future.
Please note, I'm using the word "stupid" here partly to overstate the point. Hopefully everyone is aware that there are many different types of knowing, not all of which resembles the book knowledge taught in schools. But the point is that the economy now favors book knowledge taught in schools. Those other forms of knowing are important, and were shaped by millions of years of evolution, and were once crucial to our survival, but right now we have an economy that does not pay for those other kinds of knowing.
(I have a friend who did poorly in high school and never went to college. He is a fanatic birder and environmentalist. He claims he knows over 2,000 bird call songs. I believe him; I've been in the woods with him and he knows a lot. But he can't get a job identifying bird songs.)