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The 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.
What do you speaking of?
I know the discourse around this topic is going to be an incel dumpster fire, but please consider all the positive reasons that could cause this, for example just being rich enough to retire at 50. Also consider that the population aged 25-54 is not just flatly distributed: there are dips and waves, the process of which changes the likelihood of being in the workforce.
I 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 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
More and more I've been reading articles where misfortunes are mostly-if not exclusively-due to external factors, and personal responsibility is seldom mentioned.
> 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.
I don't blame NEETs and I honestly think they're the smart ones gaming the system until it collapses.
There's not much dignity here. The opportunity to be the boots on the ground figuring out & doing things is semi done for. We don't see & witness the work of others around us, don't have the example of good rewarding work. Thus the social contract slips & gives.