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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 percent. 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:
Is it an aberration, or a harbinger of things to come?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by GungnirSniper on Sunday October 09 2016, @04:01AM
This is a harbinger of a less stable future. Just as the Arab despots found out, millions of under-employed or not-employed men are a large potential problem. We just can't spend the youth in wasteful wars any longer.
So too will the same happen in the US, where a large military system channels the energies of these young men. What will happen when there are millions of would-have-been-military men looking for something to do? We cannot go on forever in debt to the ChiComs.
The Millennials are so screwed. They see the decent lives of their fathers and grandfathers being blocked to them. Due to degree discrimination, anti-White biases, and a system that makes misdemeanors into permanent disabilities; not to mention the no-tolerance anti-testosterone policies throughout society a number are subconsciously saying "f this" and falling into drugs, including opioids. That's a symptom not the cause.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by captain normal on Sunday October 09 2016, @05:02AM
Ah yes, remember "idle hands are the devil's playground". What will happen if someone organizes all these disenfranchised men? Maybe gives them arms. It is an interesting question to me.
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @05:19AM
They'll get wiped out by the real army, or private armies/elite forces if needed. Those people will be kept well fed.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by tftp on Sunday October 09 2016, @05:38AM
They'll get wiped out by the real army
Yes, I seem to remember how the rabble of ISIS was swiftly wiped out by the well-fed, well armed, real army of President Assad...
The trick here is that the real army is small, and the army of the lumpenproletariat is huge. Small groups of rioters are already capable of holding whole cities hostage... and when the National Guard is called, the rioters disappear, waiting for the next opportune moment. The army will have strict rules of engagement, whereas their opponents will have no such constraint. The army will have to mount massive response to a single incident, chasing ghosts. Finally, the soldiers are not hired guns from Proxima Centauri - they have ties to the people that they are sent to fight. Their own families will see the cause of the instability firsthand; some will be unemployed, some will be living on minimal rations, some will die from lack of care. The morale in the army will plummet. The army cannot be sent to fight a severe social problem.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @06:30AM
The people in control of the U.S. have already anticipated these scenarios. They know how to use the FBI, CIA, and NSA to disrupt these movements. As long as some middle class and upper mobility exists, they will keep the rabble in check.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @01:42PM
Just deploy them to other cities/states and keep that propaganda train running.
Operational security, don't talk to anyone, trust us, just shoot the bad guys who are enemies of FREEDOM !!.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @10:31PM
> Yes, I seem to remember how the rabble of ISIS was swiftly wiped out by the well-fed, well armed, real army of President Assad...
Actually, Assad has not tried very hard to wipe out ISIS because he needed them to be a bogeyman for the US in order to take the focus off of himself.
(Score: 2, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 09 2016, @06:15AM
Most of the poeple who say that are unfamiliar with the military. The Army may or may not side with Washington. One of America's best generals decided not to side with the government when the government declared war on his home state. If you read the biographies of our generals, you'll find that a lot of them do some serious soul searching before accepting their orders.
Regular grunts do the same thing, they just don't write biographies.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @06:26AM
Wrong. The problem is well known, which is why you have mercenaries, fake terror plots, media indoctrination, and scare tactics to make it work.
The FBI's fake terrorists and the scary DHS reports on sovereign citizens are part of the equation. Charismatic leaders will fall victim to sex scandals. There's a tool for every scenario.
The disenfranchised young men will not be very well organized. Like Occupy, BLM and other leaderless movements tied to social media, they will be manipulated, divided, and killed off. Agent provocateurs and other disruptive tactics will be used to discredit them. The army will get called in as a last resort but the FBI and CIA will do most of the work.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @10:37AM
>Charismatic leaders will fall victim to sex scandals.
Only for those who give a shit about what cunts think.
The Old Testament is fine with raping female children.
Fuck your Jesus.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @12:02PM
>Only for those who give a shit about what cunts think.
You will get a bullet in the back and a boot in the face before you get to hear what they think.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @01:46PM
Jesus was male don't you know?
Oh yea Christians, right, raping little boys is standard procedure.
Fuck away then.
Give Jesus a good one for me.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @05:46AM
if someone organizes all these disenfranchised men?
It's been tried. Bonus Army [wikipedia.org]
Maybe gives them arms
Those guys left their guns at home.
Either way, it wouldn't have mattered.
As the previous AC noted, the other side will outgun you.
Find "battle tanks" in the Wikipedia article.
...and this guy has crunched the numbers. [google.com]
He says that if you're going to do a protest, your chances are 1 in 2 that you will succeed if you do it peacefully.
Get violent and your chances go down to 1 in 4.
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(Score: 2) by captain normal on Sunday October 09 2016, @06:11AM
Hey, 1 in 4 is better than 1 in none.
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @06:23AM
Error 11 Division by Zero
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @01:39PM
Anti-white bias. Oh you are too funny.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @04:39PM
Ya, the butthurt about feminism and racism runs strong on this site... Just don't check out voat, that place is overflowing with that shit, I can't make it more than 5-10 mi s before I regret being bored enough to look.