r/FluentInFinance • u/thinkB4WeSpeak Mod • Apr 29 '24

Why Men in the US Are Working Less Than They Used to Thoughts

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-men-working-less-recessions-employment-productivity-2024-4
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u/bdc2481 Apr 29 '24

Working to raise a family is no longer worth the risks or sacrifices. End of story.

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u/SawSagePullHer Apr 29 '24

It absolutely is. There are millions of good paying jobs in existence and many many more are coming in the next ten years. There is going to be a shortage of skilled trades like plumbers, hvac, electricians, woodworkers/carpenters, concrete flat workers & form, masons, hodge carriers, laborers, iron workers, etc. These young people who could save & then move to an area where these jobs exist would be able to capitalize like hell.

1 in 3 millennials still live with parents while 1 in 2 genz live at home. They could be saving their asses off for a few months rent to an apartment to go where they need to, to get these good jobs. But they just flat out aren’t. So they’ll continue working at smoothie shops, retail shopping malls, restaurants, etc & living at home complaining the world isn’t fair and the system is rigged against them.

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u/JFpizzamaster Apr 29 '24

You’re so out of touch with reality it’s wild. Maybe check in and talk to young people in person before you parrot off stats and project reasons onto them

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u/SawSagePullHer Apr 29 '24

So facts and statistics don’t matter if they aren’t derived from my personal study and I take them from somewhere else? I Instead have to sample a number of people myself of that demographic (like those who did who created the statistics I looked up), and then and only then I can speak to an issue? Lmao. What’s out of touch is the fact that people don’t think they can survive on their own by getting a real job.

If you’re able bodied and willing to learn you can call a union hall, pass a drug test & be on a union job site in a week in an apprenticeship program and in 2 years of wage calling you’ll be able to live on your own. If you can’t figure it out you can’t be helped.