"Where have all the Millennial men gone"

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/news/where-have-millennial-men-gone-3355531/ ^ | 11/1/2018

[DownForDCount]

Where have millennial men gone? Updated 20 hours ago

Millennial males have been dropping out of the U.S. workforce faster than any other age and gender demographic. Half a million more men aged 25 to 34 would be working now if, like women and some other groups, their participation had returned to pre-crisis levels or better, Bureau of Labor statistics show. Reasons include increased rates of school and training, as well as disability and illness. Other factors feeding into the phenomenon:

*Fewer high-paying manufacturing and mining jobs *More young adults living at home *Better video games *Increased opioid use

[Repeat Offender]

By any chance do you enjoy pink knitted hats?

I doubt she wears one of those.........

But, if divorced, I bet she doesn't have any unkind words for the judge. The ex-hubby on the other hand........

[metmom]

Not divorced.

Divorce is not an option.

I take my vows seriously and my marriage works because we make it work.

[VideoDoctor]

There are millennial men?

Yes... they're the ones WITHOUT testicles.

[Phillyred]

Destroyed by feminism!

[taxpayerfatigue]

Know an older millennial man (40+) who was always coddled by his parents who wanted him to have a better life than they had. After plugging around for several years after high school working part time as a waiter, he was persuaded (with monetary and transportation incentives) to go to college. He graduated with a degree in business marketing and went to work in - wait for it - a chain restaurant as a waiter. Seems he liked that lifestyle. Don’t have to get up till late and lots of times it’s just a party atmosphere. Parents sold their home and live in a small condo and bought him a condo in another state where he lives. As long as parents subsidize this lifestyle, that’s what you get.

[Chickensoup]

frankly I think people become mostly like their parents. too hard to do otherwise.

Not every one but many.

Each and every one of my adopted infants turned out to be clones of their birthparents in the sense that they were at the employment level of their birthparents and no more. College educated receptionist, RN just like her mom and grand mom, trucker and heavy equipment guy just like bio family, and a mcdonald worker and mentally ill just like mentally ill bio mom mcdonald part timer. All of them are extremely well spoken and educated.

Have a relative by marriage who came from a factory family. He rose way up in the world as a tech king and Big Accounting firm consultant, crashed and burned and ended his life just like his father and grandfather, working in a factory in a uniform.

People have difficulty marking out new paths from their genetic and thus emotional heritage.

Although it can be done.

[SamAdams76]

I think the big issue is that the younger people do not know shame and self-respect.

I was raised by a father who never took a dime of charity, went to work every day and didn't call in sick for over 30 years. It would be mortifying to even think of sitting around in his house playing video games while he got up and went to work. I just could not do it.

Through his example, I endeavored to follow the same path of self-reliance and pride in oneself. I got a paper route at age 13 and from that point on was never unemployed again. When I got out of high school, I chose the military over college and was in boot camp before my 18th birthday. After the military, I was able to get a college education on my own time (and a little help from VEAP).

I must have set a good example for my own sons as both of them worked part-time jobs through school and quickly moved out of the house when they graduated while holding down decent jobs.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Would that be back in the good old days, old man? .............................. Did you miss them? If you weren’t there, there is no way you could have experienced the difference. Once the 70’s came, it was no longer the same. The spirit that existed then died off. I became single again in the 70’s, and found it to be a shocker. I eventually found a woman in the 80’s, from a solid family background, from that point on it was great to be back on track. When I look back at the 50’s, it was still all Andy Hardy’s America. There were still village and town parades on the 4th of July, it was also a time when you said good morning Mr. Smith, how are you today? The kids would play together in the streets and the neighbors watched out for them regardless of who’s children they were. They also knew the names of the children. The kids would find an empty lot or a playground to play in. When they made up base ball teams, there were no grown ups in bleachers screaming at each other because of a bad pitch and an umpires judgement. If there was a problem the kids worked it out with odds or even, or eeny meeny miney mo and the issue was resolved. Yeah we lost the game so what? We’ll win the next time. No one went home crying. Yeah, just like today. If a neighbor was painting his house, kids would go up to him and volunteer to help him with it. Yup, just like today. Were they the good old days? For those of us who were lucky enough to be there, Hell Yes! I have lived to see everything you may have seen, but you may not have seen what I had seen in the 40’s and 50’s, maybe even into the 60’s? This crap we are dealing with today isn’t anything like what conspired back them. I can only speak for north of the Mason Dixon line. In my case the streets of the 1950’s NYC. LOL, this Ole man is still very functional, and productive.

[Steve_Seattle]

Belated reply: Fifty years ago people were reading that complaint about the follies of "today's youth" that was written by some ancient Greek or Roman, so - yes - there is always a tendency for one generation to bemoan the alleged decadence of the next one. Got it.

But it is also a fact that some generations in some places HAVE either perpetrated unspeakable horrors or in some other way failed to do the things necessary to preserve a culture and a society. It is usually a long process to get to that point, and multiple generations are implicated.

Some of us think that the millennial generation - egged-on by (or, as suggested by some of the comments, demoralized by) their baby-boomer parents and grandparents) - is an end-point generation, and that if something doesn't change fairly quickly, this country will cease to exist as an independent nation with the freedoms long championed by Western Civilization.

The homelessness, drug addiction, decline of the middle-class, anomie, decline of art and literature, and open contempt for our institutions - which is now even internalized IN those institutions - are things we haven't seen in our lifetimes. Listen to the music of the millennials: it's all sad, angry, or sexually degenerate. Nobody's writing happy music anymore, or even melodic music.

Way back about 1965, an interviewer asked Rolling Stones' front man Mick Jagger how long it would take for the "social revolution" to be complete. With great prescience he said, "When my generation have become grandparents." We're there now.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

As a Gen Xer, I was also heavily influenced that way, too. I think that’s why I joined the Navy at age 18, the influence was to go out and be something. You don’t have to be great but go out and do something. Now the teens are being taught that the greatest thing they can do for themselves is to become a ward of the state.

[frank ballenger]

Thank you for your service.

I must remember that Gen X and Boomers had good and bad people regardless of the overall trends. And some of the Greatest Generation have been called The Greediest Generation for asking for the most government entitlements paid for with the least contributions. No one is perfect.

But we are here today because people in the armed services sacrificed to keep America going this long. Regardless of the generational tags.

Thank you again today to all the FReepers who served or are serving.