Thursday, October 6, 2016

George Will does not get it or MGTOW in action

Why Are Millions of Men Choosing Not to Work By George Will

American men who choose not to work are choosing lives of quiet self-emasculation.

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: Since 1948, the proportion of men 20 and older without paid work has more than doubled, to almost 32 percent. This “eerie and radical transformation” — men creating an “alternative lifestyle to the age-old male quest for a paying job” — is largely voluntary. Men who have chosen to not seek work are two and a half times more numerous than men that government statistics count as unemployed because they are seeking jobs. What Eberstadt calls a “normative sea change” has made it a “viable option” for “sturdy men,” who are neither working nor looking for work, to choose “to sit on the economic sidelines, living off the toil or bounty of others.” Only about 15 percent of men 25 to 54 who worked not at all in 2014 said they were unemployed because they could not find work. For 50 years, the number of men in that age cohort who are neither working nor looking for work has grown nearly four times faster than the number who are working or seeking work. And the pace of this has been “almost totally uninfluenced by the business cycle.”

The “economically inactive” have eclipsed the unemployed, as government statistics measure them, as “the main category of men without jobs.” Those statistics were created before government policy and social attitudes made it possible to be economically inactive.

Eberstadt does not say that government assistance causes this, but obviously it finances it. To some extent, however, this is a distinction without a difference. In a 2012 monograph, Eberstadt noted that in 1960 there were 134 workers for every one officially certified as disabled; by 2010 there were just over 16. Between January 2010 and December 2011, while the economy produced 1.73 million nonfarm jobs, almost half as many workers became disability recipients. This, even though work is less stressful and the workplace is safer than ever. America ranks 22nd, ahead of only Italy, in 25 to 54 male labor-force participation. Largely because of government benefits and support by other family members, nonworking men 25 to 54 have household expenditures a third higher than the average of those in the bottom income quintile. Hence, Eberstadt says, they “appear to be better off than tens of millions of other Americans today, including the millions of single mothers who are either working or seeking work.”

America’s economy is not less robust, and its welfare provisions not more generous, than those of the 22 other affluent nations of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Yet America ranks 22nd, ahead of only Italy, in 25 to 54 male labor-force participation. Eberstadt calls this “unwelcome ‘American Exceptionalism.’”

In 1965, even high-school dropouts were more likely to be in the workforce than is the 25 to 54 male today. And, Eberstadt notes, “the collapse of work for modern America’s men happened despite considerable upgrades in educational attainment.” The collapse has coincided with a retreat from marriage (“the proportion of never-married men was over three times higher in 2015 than 1965″), which suggests a broader infantilization. As does the use to which the voluntarily idle put their time — for example, watching TV and movies 5.5 hours daily, two hours more than men who are counted as unemployed because they are seeking work. Eberstadt, noting that the 1996 welfare reform “brought millions of single mothers off welfare and into the workforce,” suggests that policy innovations that alter incentives can reverse the “social emasculation” of millions of idle men. Perhaps. Reversing social regression is more difficult than causing it. One manifestation of regression, Donald Trump, is perhaps perverse evidence that some of his army of angry men are at least healthily unhappy about the loss of meaning, self-esteem, and masculinity that is a consequence of chosen and protracted idleness.


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It is George Will and other blue pill conservatives like him that do not see what is obvious to those of us in the manosphere. In fact we called it right. Feminism begets gynocentricity,gynocentricity begets misandry and the results of misandry are the situation we have today. Men are checking out and I don't blame them. Men are figuring why give a fuck about a society that doesn't give a fuck about them. Politicians cater to women at the expense of men. California is scraping its statue of limitations for sex crimes. Why? I guess to crucify Bill Cosby when he is tried there. The democrats changed the law to lynch a black man. I guess they are the Dixie party after all.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love it! Drop out of work men! Let it all burn down! Don't enlist either! Let women enlist. Where were all the lazy women when men were fighting and dying to hand women their rights on a silver platter? Why aren't they called cowards for avoiding the draft and wars? Sexism with that man hate, anyone?

I'm neither liberal nor conservative, but I love liberals. I take their side only because I believe they'll do some startlingly good things for men - and continue helping men as they've done for a few decades now. For example:

Marriage and birth rates are at their lowest point in US history. This is very good for men. Through marriage, trillions have been forcefully transferred via the man-hating courts from men to women through divorce, alimony, asset division, child support (alimony ++) and false accusations of DV and assault. Thanks to liberals, marriage has been on the decline for decades, globally, through both good and bad economies and hopefully becomes totally extinct in the future. Liberals built that.

Religion is seriously bad for men. It teaches them they should man up and sacrifice on women's behalf (gynocentrism), all but declaring men as second class citizens to women. Liberals have had a big hand in destroying religion - and I thank them for it.

Male-only conscription and having a nearly all male front-line fighting force isn't just sexist, but it's indicative of our deeply culturally misandric and male-only-disposability mindsets. On the plate not too long ago was forcing women to sign up for the draft like men - otherwise suffering the loss of rights men suffer, up to and including imprisonment, for non-compliance. Unfortunately, the resolution didn't pass - because religious conservatives blocked it - but hopefully soon - men are released from this deeply sexist, culturally enforced mandate. Liberals made that happen.

The sociopathic-like levels to which liberals will stoop to destroy institutions that once formed the bedrock of society are immensely helpful in freeing men from gynocentrism, cultural misandry and male disposability - which is why I'm voting for -> HER.

Have nothing but love for liberals. Let's have female-only conscription for the next couple of centuries, a female-only front line fighting force for the same couple of centuries and have women fight for the rights they've been given on a silver platter through men's deaths. Men really need to start suing the government for gender discrimination on these issues.

Men not working? Why were such shaming articles not written when the vast majority of women didn't work and expected - via cultural mandates - to be taken care of by men? Funny how that works.

Give men a break, folks. They already know they're considered disposable and hated, cause male genitalia.

Masculist Man said...

You make some excellent points and overall you are correct. I wouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton because that would be very disadvantageous to men. I would back the Donald because he is one of us. He's a man who's not afraid to be a man. I find that quite refreshing. There is also a lot gynocentricity on both sides but more on the left but misandry is the main thing. If one side is misandric and the other is not we will support the anti-misandric side.

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