Why so many men in the US have stopped working
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Why so many men in the US have stopped working
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#2The assume this is voluntary we have been ejecting a certain demographic of male in the hopes to extra judicially eliminate them in an environment with 0 social safety net.
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#3> With so many factors at play, it's difficult to tease out which issues may affect the number of men in the workforce the most
This bit at the end makes the article seem very incomplete, especially since data on the number of men in jail, in schools, on disability, is readily available.
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#4> With so many factors at play, it's difficult to tease out which issues may affect the number of men in the workforce the most This bit at the end makes the article seem very incomplete, especially since data on the number of men in jail, in schools, on disability, is readily available.
I was under a lot of stress when I worked until I developed schizoaffective disorder and could no longer work and went on disability. Wounded in the line of IT duty. I am not counted as unemployed even if I am.
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#5Who on HN is not Going Galt?
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#6The assume this is voluntary we have been ejecting a certain demographic of male in the hopes to extra judicially eliminate them in an environment with 0 social safety net.
The time to stop pointing out these mistakes in their our politically tilted sandbox was years ago. Let their false-narratives cloud our approach.
Now is the time to join rank and make sure your powder is dry.
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#7I personally have not seen a strong relationship between employment status and attracting a good partner. Women are not impressed by miserable decent paying corporate jobs. Theres no incentive
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#8I am completely speaking my thoughts but I think it's of course a multitude of reasons that can all bubble up when the economy slips.
Men are the dominant gender in the workforce and are commonly the one supporting themselves or the household financially. This is an enormous amount of pressure and that pressure is built up through personal expectations on ourselves and the supposed expectations of others. We are getting to a stage where we're having to work harder for not much more in return and that reduces our belief in the benefits of doing that work.
All it takes is a recession, lay off, mental illness or disability to create a break in which those social norms fall away and may make some men question why they were putting as much effort in as they were before. Settling for perhaps a lower paying job with less effort and realising that this provides just as much if not more fulfillment. Or perhaps it's also the workload now being shared by their partners.
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#9If you have no hope of landing a good partner and a job with enough money to raise kids, is scraping by with enough money to play video games and eat junk food not an attractive alternative?
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#10I have a bunch of friends and family who are in their mid-late 20s, don't work, and spend all their time consuming entertainment. I do think that this is the real culprit. We have a situation where you can very cheaply block out the world and immerse yourself in digital wonderlands, and it's quite frankly a lot better than working some shit job in the real world. And at a certain point these folks say to themselves, "I haven't worked in years, so there's no chance I could find a job now". And the cycle continues.