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Binyamin Appelbaum writes at the NYT that the share of prime-age men — those 25 to 54 years old — who are not working has more than tripled since the late 1960s, to 16 percent as many men have decided that low-wage work will not improve their lives, in part because deep changes in American society have made it easier for them to live without working. These changes include the availability of federal disability benefits; the decline of marriage, which means fewer men provide for children; and the rise of the Internet, which has reduced the isolation of unemployment. Technology has made unemployment less lonely says Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason University, who argues that the Internet allows men to entertain themselves and find friends and sexual partners at a much lower cost than did previous generations. Perhaps most important, it has become harder for men to find higher-paying jobs as foreign competition and technological advances have eliminated many of the jobs open to high school graduates. The trend was pushed to new heights by the last recession, with 20 percent of prime-age men not working in 2009 before partly receding. But the recovery is unlikely to be complete. "Like turtles flipped onto their backs, many people who stop working struggle to get back on their feet," writes Appelbaum. "Some people take years to return to the work force, and others never do "
A study published in October by scholars at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies estimated that 37 percent of the decline in male employment since 1979 can be explained by this retreat from marriage and fatherhood (PDF). “When the legal, entry-level economy isn’t providing a wage that allows someone a convincing and realistic option to become an adult — to go out and get married and form a household — it demoralizes them and shunts them into illegal economies,” says Philippe Bourgois, an anthropologist who has studied the lives of young men in urban areas. “It’s not a choice that has made them happy. They would much rather be adults in a respectful job that pays them and promises them benefits.”
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 15 2014, @04:39PM
People need to realize the scale of it. It is not only the worker that “vanishes”, given a little patience the person does too. The demographic replacement is imported, something which has been going on for years. A society which isn't self-sustaining isn't a society.
This started over five decades ago. Could it be more deliberate?
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Monday December 15 2014, @04:55PM
Who needs our working class when we can import a new one for less? Who needs our middle class when overtime cuts into profits [pbs.org]?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 15 2014, @09:16PM
"Genocide?" methinks that word does not mean what you think it means. I invite you to take a look in palestine or varou afrikan countries to get a better understanding....
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 16 2014, @10:10PM
Eradication is genocide.
You talk about Palestinians because you've been spoonfed garbage.
Palestinians and Israelis are very good at making a lot of noise for sympathy and support.
Semite is a term that includes just about every ethnicity in the Middle East and northernmost Africa: Egypt (almost all Arab), Libya, Algeria, Tunisia (Carthaginians were eradicated), and Morocco but not Spain after the Muslim extended invasion was finally stopped and defeated just as it was in a separate expansion by invasion during a different Caliphate outside Vienna in Austria in central Europe. Both Arabs and Hebrews are Semites but Jews are not necessarily Semite however most Jews have some Semite ancestry. Many have a lot of Semite ancestry due to the insular nature of Jews (outsiders have to convert and be good at it), a trait they share with Muslims (outsiders have to convert and be good at it).
Palestinian is not an ethnicity or culture (but Arab is).
Israeli is not an ethnicity or culture (but Hebrew is).
Many Hebrew like to believe that Israel is a culture and many Arabs like to believe Palestine is a culture. Such Hebrew don't like non-Hebrews much or non-Jews, and such Arabs don't like non-Palestinian Arabs much or non-Muslims. These groups are so alike it's no wonder they hate each other so much.
Arabs (Palestinians) are in no danger of genocide and never have been in recorded history but they have eradicated quite a few ethnicities and cultures during the last one and a half thousand years (I think the only non-Arabs left along Mediterranean Africa are the Berbers (one can add tiny Western Sahara which has also become Arabic except for Berbers). No one else is comparable. After a long period of decay Arab ethnicity and culture has been surging in power and influence for the last seventy years due to oil. If you think the Saudis and their subsidiary Gulf emirates are wrong to ally with Israel instead of Palestinians you can debate it with them instead of me. If you think the Jordanians were and are wrong to not accept the land and the population as its own then you can take it up with them instead of me. There is no difference between a Jordanian and a Palestinian. The Egyptians only became involved due to peer pressure and wouldn't be too relevant, the Sinai peninsular is mostly a sparsely populated desert, there are mostly Bedouin (Arab) there. When most of the rest of the world think of Arabs they're either thinking of what would be stereotypical Bedouin, it is a positive and romantic stereotype, or the Saudi style of "Sheiks" (they're not actually Sheiks) in white.
Hebrews (many but not all Israeli) have been through a partial genocide committed by Europeans several generations ago and are along with any other Jews being threatened with genocide by various Arab and Persian groups and possibly Iran (Persians) but an actual genocide seems unlikely because the Arabs have tried several times without success during the last seventy years including multiple large scale wars. If you think they (along with other Jews) should have all accepted the free land of the Jewish Autonomous Region (still in existence) as offered by Stalin then you go argue with them about it, not me. Likewise if you think Hebrews and/or Jews don't need or deserve a country. Not my business.
If you want to worry about anyone in that region of the world you should worry about the Copts first, they're the last Egyptians and nearly extinct and in great danger of genocide by Arabs, then the Lebanese (although that might be too complicated to describe as genocide), and then the Kurds. No I am not Coptic, Lebanese, or Kurd nor do I live in the region.