This is probably a factor.
I was a pre-teen in 1980. I already had a job. Paper-boy. It wasn’t full time, but add that to my class schedule and the fact that summers sucked because I had to quit what I was doing and deliver the afternoon paper, it seemed like full time. Been employed at something or other since I was 10.
Problem is “helicopter” parents.
I walked to school or rode my bike.
I had three rules
carry change to call home
be home by dinner
don’t get in trouble with the cops
I wasn’t that exceptional nor has society changed that much.
There is just as many nut case perverts then as now.
but kids were more observant, as they didn’t have mom and dad hovering over them.
Circa 1966. I was lower middle class. My grandparents whom raised me did not have the financial assets to send me to college, they were saints. I went to Mr. Rebstock of the 2R drilling company and asked for a job for the summer. He gave me a job and it was hot and dangerous work as a roughneck on a drilling rig. I went to school and did the same the next summer.
Thank you Mr. Rebstock. I became everything in my tagline below due to you giving me a job.
My son is a GM in a nationwide restaurant chain you’ve heard of. They’re ALWAYS hiring. The problem he sees with workers is that they show up, work 1 pay period, get their check, and then never come back. They appear to only work long enough to get money to get by for some period of time, and then go somewhere else and do it again.
Who cares? The world is going to end in 7.3 years anyway!
How many of them do Soros and other Leftists have on the brown shirt payroll?
Teenagers USED TO be able to start off with a junker car their parents provided, get a job to help maintain it, and move on up from that humble beginning.
The junker you could work on no longer exists thanks to regulations.
Kids can’t get out of the house. Hard to hold a job you can’t get to.
Multi-generational welfare & illegal immigration not parsed out in this study I presume.
Funny how all of a sudden the article’s picture contains no diversity.
Drugs and being “social media influencers”.
Traditionally, a large incentive to achieve was securing a good wife and creating a family. Men needed to have means and status. Now, marriage is a dying institution. Young men have seen fathers, brothers, friends, co-workers, etc destroyed by divorce. With current laws, attitudes, and rates of failure, marriage is a bad deal.
Men who give up on trying to attract a mate quickly find out that they can get by for virtually nothing. They don't need the degrees, nice jobs, nice houses, etc. A part time job or two will suffice. They can copy their divorced counterparts and just skip to the step where they live in a studio apartment with a TV and video games. They can drink beer with their buddies and be as productive or non-productive as they wish.
If you were young man today, would you join the military? It's totally woke, totally vaxxed, and hates men...especially white men. I wouldn't join today's military, and I spent an entire career as a military man.
How about college? It's woke as can be, and many degrees are rapidly declining in value. Why would someone want to run up college debt for something with a poor ROI?
Learning a trade is great. However, to a young man who has checked out of society, what's the point? To get a nice house and pay taxes? To land that wonderful soulmate? You know, the one who in many cases gets bored after a few years, takes your house and half of your income, plus takes your kids?
The issue of men not working full time jobs is only a problem and only gets reported when it is a problem for other people. It's not an issue when only men are having a problem. It's a problem because of declining tax revenue, and a lack of marriageable men.
Sure, some of the non-working guys are Antifa types, or living in Mom's basement, or whatever. However, a lot are fairly regular guys who have decided that it's not worth it to work hard and pay taxes that get handed to illegals flooding the country. Consciously or not, they've gone Galt. What's wrong with that? Put yourself in their shoes. If I were 25, I'd probably do the same.
This is probably a factor.
The ones that can’t find work are the ones that turn trannie and can’t find dresses to wear.
That real earnings by college degree crap is so misleading. Forty years ago only about the top third of our students ventured into college. Now twice as many do, with about half the academic preparation.