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: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday December 15 2014, @05:15PM
> but I have hope that your average female will not see these men as attractive breeding partners a
"You'll never fail like common people
You'll never watch your life slide out of view, and dance and drink and screw
Because there's nothing else to do. "
-- William Shatner.
See also, the gene pool bit at the beginning of Idiocracy.
But yeah, your social darwinist / eugenicist attitudes are both scientifically and morally objectionable.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Tuesday December 16 2014, @03:19AM
Uhhh just FYI but that is a Pulp song [metrolyrics.com] although nobody can cover a song like The Shat so I can see why the confusion ;-)
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Wednesday December 17 2014, @04:33PM
Thanks for the correction, I admit my error.
"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." --Leonard Nimoy.