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Education and Men without Work
National Affairs ^ | Winter 2020 | Nicholas Eberstadt

Posted on 01/14/2020 5:37:17 PM PST by billorites

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1 posted on 01/14/2020 5:37:17 PM PST by billorites
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To: billorites
Once an average man turns 50 they are thrown into the trash can.
 
2 posted on 01/14/2020 5:47:25 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: billorites

How much of this is the previously extremely rare phenomenon of the husband staying home while the higher-earning wife goes to work?


3 posted on 01/14/2020 5:56:01 PM PST by Freee-dame
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Not entirely true. Lost my job at 47, managed to get an engineering job at 51, am now 57. Many employers are looking for men who want to come to work, are on time, and are clean.
4 posted on 01/14/2020 5:57:20 PM PST by MuttTheHoople
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To: MuttTheHoople

yes the tide is turning for older workers since Generation Tide Pod are super entitled, ignorant and lazy (generally speaking)


5 posted on 01/14/2020 6:01:14 PM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: MuttTheHoople
One element not mentioned --

Female hypergamy.

Women who are college educated, turn up their noses at men without a college degree, even if the man out-earns them.

Other men see this, and see, "why bother trying" and they drop out.

And then you have the men, divorce-raped, and they drop out.

And then the younger men see them, and say "why bother trying" and they drop out.

6 posted on 01/14/2020 6:04:44 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: billorites

Bumping for later.

Excellent article, which may be a little out of date due MAGA and our president, where anyone of any age who is willing to work can have a job.


7 posted on 01/14/2020 6:39:21 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Democrats sue Iran over right to use "Death to America" as their 2020 campaign slogban!)
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To: billorites

This is where all the factory workers went. More like their kids and grandkids. Towns got decimated. Some could move on and actually do better, others can’t. Some people are only capable of menial tasks and that is all. Remember 1/2 of us are below normal in intelligence. The illegals have kept the wages down in their world. At what point would you say F$%# it.


8 posted on 01/14/2020 6:42:28 PM PST by dgbrown
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Can it really be true that 110 million Americans have an arrest record?


9 posted on 01/14/2020 6:43:03 PM PST by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Young men, especially white young men, are under siege in this country. It is no wonder that they turn inward toward online communities.


10 posted on 01/14/2020 6:45:40 PM PST by beef (Caution: Potential Sarcasm - Process Accordingly)
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To: billorites

Ask Joe Biden — all these guys just need to learn to code. /S


11 posted on 01/14/2020 7:00:00 PM PST by DazedVet (Self esteem cannot be taught in school but comes from actual achievement.)
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To: billorites

Ping for tomorrow


12 posted on 01/14/2020 7:02:25 PM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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“Some people are only capable of menial tasks and that is all”.

I used to get into big fights mostly on YouTube pointing this out because all the globalist sellouts had only one answer....go to college. I pointed out not everyone is capable. Not one of them had a coherent answer to the problem and would usually just start insulting me as lazy, etc. even while I was a college graduate myself.


13 posted on 01/14/2020 7:07:01 PM PST by MachIV
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To: Amberdawn
I don't know if that is true. I have no reason to doubt it. But every one of us break dozens of onerous laws every day. Pissing in a creek is a crime. Pissing in drainage ditch is a crime. Burning bonfires in your backyard is a crime. Luckily where I live no one gives a damn and there certainly are no witnesses.

From Stalin's infamous head of the secret police, Beria:

Show me the man, and I will show you the crime.

14 posted on 01/14/2020 7:18:55 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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Men without work

H-1B Visa
Mass immigration
Bad Tariffs
Illegal aliens
Multi lateral trade

Replacement Migration


15 posted on 01/14/2020 7:23:19 PM PST by TheNext (I Am Therefore I Think)
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To: MuttTheHoople

I’ll take an older worker any day over one of these young kids.

Today I had to go into a bank. Usually I do everything over the internet but this was a rare occasion. The young kids sitting there pretending to be tellers were all sipping giant sodas. ( Not that they needed any soda.) They weren’t well groomed and were not very focused. How can banks hire people like that?


16 posted on 01/14/2020 7:28:13 PM PST by ladyjane
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I know a guy who runs his own business in central Maryland.
He employs a great number of Millennials. He can’t say it enough, “Millennials are the bane of mankind.”


17 posted on 01/14/2020 7:47:08 PM PST by huckfillary
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To: billorites

Education / Demographics bump for later.....


18 posted on 01/14/2020 8:11:40 PM PST by indthkr
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I agree there are an astonishing plethora of laws that someone can be arrested for breaking, but 110 MILLION people? That’s literally one third of the country! I’d like to see their statistics, honestly.


19 posted on 01/14/2020 9:28:09 PM PST by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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To: billorites

This is a long article and applies to me not

I have far TOO MUCH work and I’m 50


20 posted on 01/14/2020 9:36:38 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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