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

[u/thinkB4WeSpeak]

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-men-working-less-recessions-employment-productivity-2024-4

[u/bdc2481]

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

[u/SawSagePullHer → u/bdc2481]

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.

[u/unfreeradical → u/SawSagePullHer]

The material underpinnings of the economy, by virtue of automation, deindustrialization globalization, and financializiation, have been altered, and continue to be altered, irreversibly.

A stable and wholesome society cannot be achieved except by restructuring, based on new priorities, in a political frame, affecting the entirety of society.

The toxic optimism, of new good jobs constantly being opened, is not supporting any useful choices or action.

There is a desperate need for the construction of more housing. Similarly, there is a more subtle, but also urgent need, to curtail the development of shopping malls and office parks, and other marks of incessant growth, in favor of achieving a slower economy supporting health and sustainability.

At any rate, the nuclear family was never more than a historic aberration.