Posted on 10/06/2016 4:00:53 AM PDT by expat_panama
The "quiet catastrophe" is particularly dismaying because it is so quiet, without social turmoil or even debate. It is this: After 88 consecutive months of the economic expansion that began in June 2009, a smaller percentage of American males in the prime working years (ages 25 to 54) are working than were working near the end of the Great Depression in 1940, when the unemployment rate was above 14%.
If the labor force participation rate were as high today as it was as recently as 2000, nearly 10 million more Americans would have jobs.
The work rate for adult men has plunged 13 percentage points in a half-century. This "work deficit" of "Great Depression-scale underutilization" of male potential workers is the subject of Nicholas Eberstadt's new monograph "Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis," which explores the economic and moral causes and consequences of this:
Since 1948, the proportion of men 20 and older without paid work has more than doubled, to almost 32%. This "eerie and radical transformation" -- men creating an "alternative lifestyle to the age-old male quest for a paying job" -- is largely voluntary.
Men who have chosen to not seek work are two and a half times more numerous than men that government statistics count as unemployed because they...
...Only about 15% of men 25 to 54 who worked not at all in 2014 said they were unemployed because they could not find work.
For 50 years, the number of men in that age cohort who are neither working nor looking for work has grown nearly four times faster than the number who are working...
...The "economically inactive" have eclipsed the unemployed...
...Eberstadt does not say that government assistance causes this...
...America ranks 22nd, ahead of only Italy, in 25 to 54 male labor force participation...
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
Yes we have “obese poor”, think about it!
Throughout history until now a logical impossibility.
Historically thin meant unfed ergo poor, fat meant well fed ergo rich. In some sense our civilization should be congratulated we have solved the problem of the “poor”, but there has been a cultural cost as well as economic one.
But what is the advantage to working your life away to pay for a house full of luxuries for a woman and children?
10/6/2016, 6:06:19 AM by Bryanw92
sour grapes
phrase of sour
1.
used to refer to an attitude in which someone adopts a negative attitude to something because they cannot have it themselves.
https://www.google.com/#q=Sour+grapes
You already posted that. I agree with you, but I also recognize that God killed 5 of my children for some purpose. This must be it.
>>I agree with you
No you don’t. You got force fed your own vomit.
"After 88 consecutive months of the economic expansion that began in June 2009…"
Answer: Never-Trump PUSSY George Will. Just remember that when he tries to tell you he is a conservative, or a Republican, or anything except what he is – an inside-the-beltway elitist twerp who has never done a day’s work in his entire 90lb weakling life.
>>No you don’t. You got force fed your own vomit.
If you say so, Mrs Holier-Than-Thou.
"But what is the advantage to working your life away to pay for a house full of luxuries for a woman and children"
10/6/2016, 6:06:19 AM by Bryanw92
Grapes, Sour; 1 Bunch each.
OK, make the mooching HARDER!
They apparently had AIDS back then too.
Or at least due penalties like Gonorrhea, Syphilis...
Causes
Epididymitis is most common in young men ages 19 to 35. It is most often caused by the spread of a bacterial infection. Infection often begins in the urethra, the prostate, or the bladder. Gonorrhea andchlamydia infections are most often the cause the problem in young heterosexual men. In children and older men, it is more commonly caused by E. coli and similar bacteria. This is also true in homosexual men.
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001279.htm
E. coli... where does that live?
"Intestinal bacteria, such as E. coli, most often cause epididymitis."
https://www.google.com/search?q=e%20coli%20epididymitis%20sodomy&rct=j
It's reasonable to expect the effects of those and other STDs were just as unpleasant back then... before today's "medications" existed to become resistant of.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Sexual attitudes, preferences and infections in Ancient Egypt.
"What might be learned is concerned more with prevention than cure."
I've wrote this before but in our ICU ONE nurse was responsible for the total care of a huge obese man...moving him, feeding him, medicating him, changing him, etc....
the day came when he was going to be discharged to an acute care rehab facility....
they sent 5 burly firemen to more him....it took 5 of them what it took one nurse to do...
they are choosing to live like pansies...
>sorry but a lot of these young “men” are porn addicted and pussies too boot....
>they are choosing to live like pansies...
If you want to motivate man, get him married at 18 and he’ll work himself silly for his family.
You and probably every woman in the world can probably run circles around me today, because I “work like a girl” now. Not so many years ago you couldn’t touch me - and I have the pay and promotions to prove it. Since then my work went from a mission that consumed my every waking moment to practically a hobby, and I get to play a very active role in raising my children.
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