nope, only the romney / bush / biden type families at the expense of the other 99%
“and have since struggled to find the right job”
Back in the day, you took a job as a stepping stone to find a better job. You didn’t “struggle to find the right job” when you were unemployed.
Think about how bad the economy sucked in 1980 but still 85% of 25 y/o men worked. Wasn’t it in Autumn of 1979 that Carter gave his infamous Great Malaise speech? I not sure what to call the funk we’re in at the moment. It seems young men don’t have any piss and vinegar these days. Despite the the terrible economy in the early 80’s everyone I knew and myself were determined to be out on their own, working and taking on the world. Maybe Atari just wasn’t good enough to make us want to live in Mommy and Daddy’s basement.
Just today here in NY, I heard a radio ad from the State Dept of Transportation looking for road maintenance workers.
It blew my mind
Ever since I was a kid, a state job like that would only go to a politician’s brother-in-law or someone connected to a political party. Such a job would never hit the open market, much less be advertised on radio.
This article reads like it was written in 1980. Since then, states have required benefits for anyone who works more than 24 hours a week. That caused employers to eliminate full time jobs.
Revitalize a good ass whoopin BY THE FATHER and you will see males/boys/young men getting any job close by and then move on into the world with God’s grace.
I am surprised it is that high..
A large proportion of the difference went to college and grad school. That’s eaten up a large share of the youth labor force.
For the most part they are wasting their time there.
Several factors:
- illegal aliens indoctrinated with racist views toward America and Americans
- bad or poor quality of management that mistreats people
- drug syndicates and their “marketing”
- social media indoctrinating (so-called “influencing”) people with *looking up* to bad behavior (of several forms, almost all - violent) and not respecting Jesus simple commands:
Prefer God and Love neighbors - do what Jesus would recommend, among the decisions to be taken.
- cultural civil warfare (some of which is “lawfare”) in which, standing up for Jesus makes a man marked for being “politically impure” according to progressives’ thought police
- and other discouraging things that promote frustration
IMHO
Real earnings for men without college degrees has dropped 30% since the 1980s.
When they’ve been replaced by Juan, Jesus, Pancho, and others from around the world, there ain’t much they can do.
America doesnt need them, girls do everything better. So they’re sitting it out in gynocentric misandrist societies that find faultwith any choice they make.
Its good in the long run, many will learn not to give two sh1ts about what women and others say about them.
This is part of a long term trend.
The worst decline was in 2009-2010
It’s actually improved a bit lately.
Employment rate. 16-19
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300012
Also a long term trend for workers in general, even in prime working age, 25-54
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LREM25MAUSM156S
Illegal immigration is the real culprit here, though yes, sellout globalism has obviously been less than helpful as well.
But it is also cultural decline that is at fault here as well.
Maybe driving businesses into bankruptcy with lockdowns in 2020 reduced the employment opportunities in 2021? How about mandatory ‘vaccines’? Did that harm the willingness to work?
Many of them are wasting their time with an useless major.
A few are being supported by their wealthy parents. Others are living off welfare from the government.
Nothing a war can’t take care of.
Too many illegals to compete with or, if educated, too many H1B. And the military, probably these young men are not mentally ill enough to want to serve with mentally ill men.
Indolence is all the rage.