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The study, conducted by Pinghui Wu, a researcher at the Boston Fed, found that men without a college degree are more likely to stop working or seeking work when their expected earnings fall in comparison to other workers. For these men, jobs aren't just a source of income; they're a source of social status.
That's especially true for white men, Wu writes, and younger men, who see a job with limited pay growth — which they believe could affect their marriage prospects and social status — as worse than no job. So what are they doing instead? Wu cited research showing that prime-age men who are not in the labor force spend twice as much time on leisure activities and sleeping, compared with labor force participants.
Makes me think of all the pedditors, when confronted with higher women's college attendance and graduation rates, talk big about how it's a sham and apprenticeships are the way to go. 😆
Honestly, this is so pathetic. Males really are giant whiny toddlers. And it's telling how much they care about social status. Everything they do is to impress other males, lmao. Dudes are so strangely hierarchical with each other.
"Wu said marriage market anxiety for younger male workers is likely the prime reason for leaving the workforce when their social status declines."
LMAOOO WTF IS "MARRIAGE MARKET ANXIETY" 😂
> younger men, who see a job with limited pay growth — which they believe could affect their marriage prospects and social status — as worse than no job
The funny thing is they're half right to think it'd affect their marriage prospects, but then why opt for unemployment?? It's funny because they're sort of weeding themselves out of the gene pool.
Scrotes: If at first you don’t succeed, definitely give up right away
I dont care. More women in workforce and higher positions in just few more years!!! We work our asses off both during and after college to accomplish our goals because we know there are no safety nets for us and the whole society is stacked against us. Until now everything was guaranteed for free for these men without any real effort. This is not just laziness but also entitlement and narcissism.
I knew a couple where the man decided to quit working altogether after moving in with his girlfriend who outright owned her house. He didn’t have to pay rent or bills or contribute to anything.
when I asked him why he said “because if I work then I’ll have to pay for health care” and “well there’s no point of working anyway, the system is stacked up against us, I can’t get ahead anyway so it doesn’t make sense to work” that’s some serious scrote logic for you and how I suspect lots of these hobosexual men think.
can you imagine how much money you could save with no bills at all, even just working minimum wage? It’s all free money. Very few people are so lucky as to not have to pay for living expenses. I would be in heaven if all my income was disposable. And how inconsiderate to not think about the extra burden he was putting on his girlfriend.
oh and he ended up abusing her and punching holes in her walls and justifying that as well. Last I heard he had finally found someone new to mooch off and dumped her, but then took two more years to move out(I assume he was mooching off both of them at the same time, for as long as he could). I hope that poor woman doesn’t meet another scrote but she seemed to have very low self-esteem.
Men are quitting because for once they have to share the privilege with other groups of people who want to have a fair share of an equal slice of said privilege to be able to work, get money, and live a good life with it. This is especially true for white men when they placed their foots on their wives necks and black people's necks. Crazy that now this same group are quickly becoming less educated and less employed overall.
Back then, men waved their jobs, degrees, and money around to be able to step on people whenever they wanted to without getting into deep shit about it. Now that minority groups are getting rights and the freedom to have the same things in life, they'd rather drop out of the race instead of running shoulder to shoulder without bitching about it.
Saw this in action with my ex-husband. He got laid off from a good paying job, went on unemployment. Once that ran out I told him he needed to get a job, any job, since we had 2 kids to provide for and I was already working full time. His reply? “I’m not taking a lower paying job, it’s below me”. I flipped out! I would gladly scrub dishes if it meant being able to take care of my kids. But he would rather watch the kids go hungry than to take a job that was “beneath him”! I’m not stupid, I know it was just an excuse so he could stay home playing video games all day. But still…wtf