Rising Number of Men Don't Want to Work
Newsweek,
by
Suzanne Blake
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
5/6/2024 2:03:10 PM
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
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/6/2024 2:08:28 PM (No. 1713041)
Here's some advice for employers that want good employees. Don't insult your job applicants, make them jump meaningless circus loops, and respect their time as much as you do yours. Otherwise you will be left with those employees that can't go elsewhere.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Scrubber 5/6/2024 2:10:16 PM (No. 1713045)
Well, shoot. Neither do I. But I go to work anyway.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
formerNYer 5/6/2024 2:11:13 PM (No. 1713046)
Why should they when biden and the uniparty pays them to stay home.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Northcross 5/6/2024 2:12:15 PM (No. 1713047)
Care to break that down by race?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Luandir 5/6/2024 2:20:22 PM (No. 1713059)
Entitled twits.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bobmadison 5/6/2024 2:26:34 PM (No. 1713065)
One More Time: TOO MUCH WELFARE. Period. End of story.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
raspberry 5/6/2024 2:35:11 PM (No. 1713072)
So where is the discussion of how they eat and live?
Is it from the hard work of the taxpayer. Off of me?
I suspect it is.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
stevendm 5/6/2024 2:36:58 PM (No. 1713073)
They probably would rather spend all day riding their escooters and primping their man buns
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
padiva 5/6/2024 2:44:54 PM (No. 1713075)
My former husband didn't want to work. He made himself unemployable. (severe obese) He died waiting for disability. As a widow, I was able to collect Social Security at 60. He's nice to me now.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
franq 5/6/2024 2:55:34 PM (No. 1713078)
Da Bible speak ta dat.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/6/2024 2:59:26 PM (No. 1713080)
I wondered how many people retired before the age of 65. My last employer had lots of layoffs. In the end, they had volunteers because it got so bad. Why would you want to work in an environment like that? The other thing is you see what's waiting for you down the road, you prepare for it. My employer kept laying people off, I accordingly saved my money to the point I did not need to work.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 5/6/2024 3:15:57 PM (No. 1713085)
And they make money how?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
nwcudagal 5/6/2024 3:20:39 PM (No. 1713088)
Disability is easy to get. I know too many people in their 50's who went that way. I was stupid and worked up until 65.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
thekidsmom66 5/6/2024 3:32:08 PM (No. 1713095)
Well, while I do love my job, I don't "like" having to work, either....but I do like to be able to eat, have running water, electricity, etc. So, unless or until some long lost rich relative I don't know about dies and leaves me a boatload of money, freeing me to travel the globe, I'll continue to show up everyday - rain or shine, feeling great or not, ready to give 200%.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 5/6/2024 3:36:14 PM (No. 1713096)
Rather than admitting to laziness, I prefer to call it "Gone Galt".
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Catherine 5/6/2024 3:37:55 PM (No. 1713100)
# 1 - employers pay your salary. That's all they need to do for employees. You do not own their business or run it. They get to make the rules. Most are okay to work for but some aren't. That's when you find another job. But don't expect to work for someone and get the same benefits as the owner or head of your department. Doesn't work that way.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
thekidsmom66 5/6/2024 3:42:58 PM (No. 1713107)
Regarding disability - I have slight scoliosis, and as a result, have degenerative arthritis in my thoracic spine. When I was about 35, my doctor told me I had the spine of an 85 year old woman. Well, I'm a lot further down the road now, and my back hurts EVERY. DAY. It has for 30+ years. It was the pain that caused me to go to the doctor to find out what was causing it. I wear a capsaicin patch on my back every day. I am a preschool director and teach 6th grade part time at a classical Lutheran academy. But I have worked plenty of jobs, including for a non-profit Christian organization, where I spent hours on a hot warehouse dock in the TX summer, sorting through donated items, moving boxes, etc. I worked in a daycare where I lived some VERY HEFTY 2 year olds, and now have arthritis in my right shoulder to show for my trouble. LOL I go home in pain at the end of most days, and I am thankful for hot water and epsom salts! I was made a single mom to 4 kids who had to return to the workforce by divorce and some very poor life choices of my ex after our divorce. And I won't be able to retire for quite some time, and it won't be a luxurious lifestyle when I do. I've done all kinds of work, including doing a "side hustle" with Amazon Flex, but I've never even thought of taking disability. I don't understand the mindset of these young people.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/6/2024 3:47:56 PM (No. 1713113)
Men also may be leaving the workforce due to a larger dissatisfaction with capitalist society, Vissing said.
"Many jobs are simply not satisfying," Vissing said. "Working for others who get the benefit of our physical labor and intellectual property is not rewarding either emotionally or financially. People want to work doing jobs that matter to us. We want to use our creativity. We want to matter, and in many businesses, employees simply don't get treated with the respect and support that we need and want. People walk away from them."
Pass the barf bag.
Women aren't doing this to them. It is clearly a DIY job. Lazy sods.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
3XALADY 5/6/2024 3:51:25 PM (No. 1713116)
For several years I have wondered if people don't go to work any more and this was way before work from home started. I was retired and would be out and around during the day. Saw so many couples out shopping. Wondered if maybe the guy worked nights but there couldn't be that many people working nights. I'd like to know what they are living on unless it is mailbox money from Uncle Sugar for being lazy, i.e. 'disabled.' This country is just swirling the terlet today.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
LadyHen 5/6/2024 3:53:00 PM (No. 1713118)
Some are Peter Pans living in mom's basement.
But some have dropped out of cooperate career work. Most corporate work environments are very hostile to men, white men in particular. Corporate heads have instituted as corporate policy the HR self flagellation rituals that scream in the face of white, heterosexual, men that they are evil, colonizing rapists. Not great for moral in the workplace.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
rockeysroomie 5/6/2024 3:54:13 PM (No. 1713119)
This a baloney story.on white bread with no condiments. Geez.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/6/2024 4:02:08 PM (No. 1713121)
FWIW this is Newsweek BeeEss.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/6/2024 5:40:26 PM (No. 1713162)
Stop supporting and feeding them and you will be amazed at how fast they find jobs.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
privateer 5/6/2024 9:39:02 PM (No. 1713284)
Mr. Natural said: Ya don't work, ya don't eat. Unfortunately, a lot of the hippie generation that grew up reading Mr. Natural have figured out ways to scam the system. Leftist politicians---who throw coins from their carriages as they ride through the streets, to keep votes coming in---just love this development. Self-sufficiency is BAD for business.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 5/6/2024 10:06:23 PM (No. 1713295)
In my father's declining years, we hired two people to assist him, so that he could remain in his ownnnhome. They insisted on cash payments and no Social Security or tax withholding. When asked why, they both said tgey didn't want to endanger their disability payments. Neither of them was even slightly disabled in any way.
HUGE amounts of disability fraud in rural small towns, perhaps everywhere.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
crashnburn 5/6/2024 11:47:24 PM (No. 1713330)
#25. That’s sad and outrageous. I wish you would have followed the law, even though you’d probably lost those two. It’s got to start somewhere.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
DVC 5/7/2024 1:06:25 AM (No. 1713352)
Re #26....yes, we looked at what out possibilites were. Small rural town, and no real other options for keeping him in his home. It lasted another 10 months before he moved to a care facility.
As much as I didn't like it, I think we made the right choice. He loved that home, my mother had died there and he dearly wanted to die there, too.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/7/2024 1:47:01 AM (No. 1713361)
It's God's "curse" upon man to have to "work by the sweat of his brow" working the field for crops. This wicked generation is all about rebellion, even against God Almighty. Fools.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
CivilServant 5/7/2024 8:03:40 AM (No. 1713498)
Every commenter in the OA speaks of not wanting to work for low wages, and supports the Left in assaulting the free market.
If you double the amount of Beanie babies in the marketplace, the value of the Beanie baby halves.
Now swap the word “Beanie Baby” with “Jobs’ and “Illegal Immigrants” and the same principle applies.
We are surrounded by morons.
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Probably a big cause of huge increase in delinquent behavior since 1950s. Idle hands are the devil's playground.