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 ...
Shaming men into getting married won’t work. That was one of the first thing the women tried, and it failed.
This is a contributing factor to guys in the "inner city" finding it more attractive to be in a drug gang than work a regular job. There are guys who would rather only live til 40, but have that 40 years be full of excitement, sex, and living high, than live to 70 at a crap job, and die without a pretty girl ever having interest in you.
You are describing the “John Galt” syndrome. I find it extremely interesting that so many of our problems were first identified, described, and their logical end state happened in fictional works, including SiFi, in the late 1950s and early 1960’s.
>>If you spend your life raising kids, they will go to college and be taught to hate everything you ever taught them.
Is that what your mommy taught you?
Excuses like those are like a certain part of anatomy; everybody has one and they all stink the same.
Meanwhile, like many other men, I didnt grow up to hate my male role models - or the wives they provided for.
YMMV.
Boo hoo (NOT) for you and your fellow whining/neutered poodles when Natural Selection removes you from the gene pool.
>>Shaming men into getting married wont work.
The proliferation of Roman Catholicism demonstrates otherwise.
This is rubbish. The current unemployment rate is 4.9%
I mean, they wouldn’t lie to us, right? 8-|
I would like to see George Will do a honest days work. Maybe putting 40 lb bags of bird seed on pallets. It would probably kill him.
Those numerous stories of people buying steak and lobster with their EBT cards? I would bet that a number of them are women working "off the books" as housekeepers for wealthy families. Do the shopping for your employer, pay for it with EBT, and your employer gives you cash. Meanwhile, you get most of the food for yourself at "food pantries".
Touting conservative principles is fine and dandy as long as it doesn’t negatively impact YOUR life.
If you think any political philosophy is going to convince men to be wage slaves for women that hate them, separate them from their children, and vilify them, you’re sadly mistaken.
That sounds nice, but I bet you still have to go to the office kitchen to make the ladies sammiches.
Or as I call them, "lucky bastards."
“I am sorry you have had a bad relationship or three.”
Dismissing a significant social development involving tens of millions of men as due to “bad relationships” is supremely silly. Men will tell you why they’ve changed their behavior, if you just bother to ask them.
Roman Catholicism ain’t doing too well in American lately either, buddy.
>>Touting conservative principles is fine and dandy as long as it doesnt negatively impact YOUR life.
Having a little trouble compehending that whole "LIVES, FORTUNES, AND SACRED HONOR" concept are ya?
Having a little trouble sticking to things relevant to the current discussion?
Hey, I want to join them.
I have a little place in Florida. Tiny little condo. Old, but paid for.
I want move there, apply for every benefit and entitlement I can, quit working.
I’d join the local historical society, friends of the library, friends of the park. I’d attend every beach or park clean up, work at the Library, and the museum, ride my bike, paddle my kayak and re-learn to fish.
If you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em.
The growth in disability has not been driven by retirement or veterans. The growth in beneficiaries has been quietly orchestrated by this administration and exacerbated by the fact that SSDI is an automatic ticket to Medicare. SSDI is not means-tested and that equates to some people making more on disability than they ever made working.
Many people want to work; many people are significantly disabled and often don’t get the medical care they need, but a significant percentage of recipients view it as a way to make easy money. All it takes is a lack of pride and integrity. In my experience, that is the textbook definition of a Democrat voter.
Talk to some people familiar with the ‘sexual trauma’ scam that young ladies who served in the military can work through the VA; it’s good for at least 30% disability and preference to many federal & state jobs.
Because he really doesn’t disagree with what a few more Kagan type USSC members will do to America.
...multiple generations of increasingly FAILING (useful idiot) male role models - manufactured through a deliberate process:
"According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.The first stage being "demoralization".It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least 3 generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism.Most of the activity of the department [KGB] was to compile huge amount / volume of information, on individuals who were instrumental in creating public opinion. Publisher, editors, journalists, uh actors, educationalists, professors of political science. Members of parliament, representatives of business circles. "--KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov--Soviet Subversion of the Free Press (Ideological subversion, Destabilization, CRISIS - and the KGB)
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