A rising number of American men don't want to work

[Canada Goose]

American men are opting out of the workforce at unforeseen rates.

For many, it's not an issue of not being able to find a job. They have simply opted out altogether. The Bureau of Labor Statistics found only 89 percent of working age men have a job or are actively looking for work. In 1950, that number was at 97 percent.

While the early 1950s saw around 96 percent of working age American men between the ages of 25 and 54 working full or part-time jobs, that proportion has now moved to just 86 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

And as fewer men financially support themselves, there are long-reaching economic and societal implications, experts say.



The U.S. has a major issue of prime-age men giving up and permanently exiting the labor force," Robin Brooks, a senior fellow policy research firm the Brookings Institution and the former chief economist at IIF, wrote on X, formerly Twitter this week.

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[The ADD]

Good on them

 

[Arris]

we eerily follow behind japan in their social ills (at a time lag) and obviously demographically and population size we differ so things will be different.

Hikikomori, A Japanese Culture-Bound Syndrome of Social Withdrawal? A Proposal for DSM-V

A form of severe social withdrawal, called hikikomori, has been frequently described in Japan and is characterized by adolescents and young adults who become recluses in their parents’ homes, unable to work or go to school for months or years. ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

it seems hyberbolic to say, but I think most would agree that america is suffering from a cultural rot right now

if this thread devolves into an attack on gen z I'll edit in more details on my own limited anecdotal experiences

 

[Nagarjuna]

Work sucks. I don't blame them

Can't make no real money anyway by working. Better off learning how to scam or lay pipe for rich sugar mommas

 

[Apollo Creed]

we eerily follow behind japan in their social ills (at a time lag) and obviously demographically and population size we differ so things will be different.

Hikikomori, A Japanese Culture-Bound Syndrome of Social Withdrawal? A Proposal for DSM-V

A form of severe social withdrawal, called hikikomori, has been frequently described in Japan and is characterized by adolescents and young adults who become recluses in their parents’ homes, unable to work or go to school for months or years. ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

it seems hyberbolic to say, but I think most would agree that america is suffering from a cultural rot right now

if this thread devolves into an attack on gen z I'll edit in more details on my own limited anecdotal experiences

most men "work hard" for a family and family is something that is a thing of the past so they are like what's the point. Men tend to live on less than women so women have incentive to "grind" to splurge on themselves if they can't find a dude to trick on em, but for men if you got nothing to trick on then why stress

 

[UWasntThere]

I don't really want to work either but those bills don't pay themselves

 

[OfTheCross]

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Add me to the.list

 

[badboys11]

Women are working more than ever before and making more money than ever in history so this balances out right?

 

[Ghost Utmost]

Who the fukc wants to work?

I been doing it constantly since I was 14 and I still hate waking up and driving to that mf

 

[RamsayBolton]

So men are increasingly incels, increasingly right wing, increasingly authoritarian, and increasingly uninterested in working

 

[Human Torch]

I mean I don’t WANT to work but not working is not an option.

 

[I Really Mean It]

 

[cheek100]

Pitiful

 

[YvrzTrvly]

Edited. An anti consumptive and minimalist lifestyle opens many doors

 

[2 one 3]

I don’t think anyone likes to work


But we all love getting paid