Why Men Are Leaving The Workforce
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- Men have been steadily dropping out of the workforce - especially men aged 25 to 54, who are often considered to be in their prime working years. About 10.5% of men in their prime working years, or roughly 6.8 million men nationwide, are neither working nor looking for employment, compared to just 2.5% in 1954. So what’s driving men out of the workforce? And if left unchecked, what impact will it have on the U.S. economy?
Chapters:
1:29 Why some men aren’t working
6:05 Economic impact
8:02 Solutions
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Why Men Are Leaving The Workforce
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Life went from working for a good life to working to barely survive, often needing help. It’s not a mystery
Prices of everything has increased except wages for years and years.
AND, Jobs promote women only.
Women are praised and get promotions, if you do well, it's just expected
So work for yourself, it's better, believe me
Two Boomers talking about why young men are leaving or can't enter the workforce doesn't help anyone at all
Doubling the workforce led to a very slow, long-term loss of individual purchasing power. Two people have to work to achieve the same level of purchasing power as one who worked more than 150 years ago.
So where is that survival help coming from if not employment?
Why are these boomers giving their opinion about young men? You should interview the young men themselves instead. These boomers with half a mil in retirement account with their house paid off couldn’t care less about how young men are struggling
Because young men just want to cry and never propose any solutions.
Its the poor boomers who rely on social security and medicare will get shafted when their ordinary income and healthcare cost is cut, delayed, or flat out not given out. And then they are the same Baby Boomers who would vote againsts their concience in-favor of Conservative idealists to owned the liberul minded folks who wanted everything fair.
@@Rice10120strong men also cry. Strong men… also… cry
@@Rice10120 how would you know if they're not even being interviewed? Learn to read genius
They couldn't find any young men to interview, they were too busy smoking a fat joint and scoring a penta on League in their mother basement.
People get tired of applying at these fake job ads. I'm in South Florida and I work in IT and I swear the past 3 years I just keep seeing the same job listings over and over
I've been told as a hiring manager that its a state labor requirement to publicly post all our job openings, even when we already have someone we want to offer. Most of the time when we post something, the job was already filled and we never actually even wanted to post it, but are required to for some labor or pay transparency reason apparently.
Also in south Florida, lots of these jobs are 100% commission and borderline scams.
Ghost jobs are real!
@@U23721 That is only half of it. The other half is companies keeping a "pipeline" where they feel absolutely no remorse for posting fake jobs just so they can gauge the market and keep resumes at the ready for the next wave of firings replaced with cheaper workers.
Employers need to start going to jail for this nonsense. People are wasting their time.
Yes. Fake job postings to harvest your personal data as well.
Rigid social hierarchy, lack of opportunities, no health insurance coverage regardless of income, telling low income men they're inferior to rich men, getting men and women to hste each other.
Its not a mystery except to journalists.
Yeah, and sometimes the feeling of depending on someone else to feed your family.
exactly especially this channel which always purposes their narrative
Their narrative is the reason why this issue exist and continue increasing in the future
It’s just carrot and the stick. Women have always been the carrot. Now with women saying 80% of men are unattractive then there’s no reason to keep working. Make a little and live your life. Men still want the same thing it’s women that rejected it
women work easier jobs and gain the same as physical jobs only men can do due to woke ideologies.
They do not look at female data which might be offsetting some of these statistics. Perhaps males, these days, are more socially acceptable to staying at home and taking care of the kids. This in turn may increase female workforce participation. This is not a bad thing rather just a change in trend 😅. Data is just trash information if one does not look at it appropriately.
As a 34 year old working man, I can honestly say that everyday I wake up wishing I didn’t have to work anymore. The problem isn’t young men. The problem is a work culture that is enslaved to corporate profits over our health and well-being. The problem is corporate greed making life intolerable for society as a whole exacerbating every problem to become worse.
Yeah, don't know about US but here in EU we are not even sure we are going to have a pension since welfare is failing us
If the pension fails here , older people over 65 would have to go to work , it would be utter chaos
You're not wrong. People have played the game and lost big. There's enough social media history backing it to keep people informed in a way they had not been before. My parents relied on photo albums and tv news to construct their narratives for their lives. They had no idea why things were happening, unless they were told by broadcast media or a newspaper.
@@Ali-e5h1b that's true but cultural ignorance persists...for example everyone can Google dioxine, but still there are people who burn rubbish both in cities and fields...as well as cultural divide - never mind social ladder, most people nowadays are born into good jobs, especially considering the cost of a degree and the utter preying of student by the rent and consumer industry
@@mattiafrancescobruni8318pensions have been out since the 80’s or so in the USA. Government positions only. Everyone else has to save to retire. Social security may be something close to an equivalent but yes no one under 50 believe SS will survive to their retirement.
For the love of God. Stop pretending like you don't know the answer. Pay us more money. There is no incentive to go to school, get into a mountain of debt, and get paid chump change. While still relying on a second income to make ends meet. Stop scratching your heads like this is such a difficult thing to solve. PAY US MORE.
Yes, but why do you need to be paid more? Because of taxes and costs imposed by regulations and inflation (which is just another tax). Basically, those who want to work are being forced to subsidize those who do not, with predictable consequences.
Amen!!! Alahouha!!!👏🏿🙏🏿✊🏿 someone had to say it!!!
In the meantime, while you all keep whining where all you at? Hanging out at the beach ?
It's not just that. Men, especially white men, are not treated very well in today's society. This also explains the rise of a right wing populist like Trump.
@@YorickReturns Taxes is nothing new. What is New is now buisness are buying up all the homes, there increasing the price of all goods, and health insurance refuses to pay. All tax cuts will do is weaken the USA military, police, fire department, school system, and infrastructure. Time for your boss to sell one of there "Toys" and pay the people who keep keep them rich.
Ah yes, a sector notorious for gatekeeping and filled with people who refuse to teach the rookies, while simultaneously complaining "nobody wants to work". Gee, who wouldn't want to go into the trades?
Let’s keep it real. Atrocious mid management that disrespects you and micromanages you. My last job things got personal to the point I would have done a stint in county jail if I stayed around to experience more disrespect. I was unemployed 4 months until getting a new job. Let’s treat people like humans and they’ll want to work.
Middle management are leaving to. The greatest ploy ever from the very top was to make workers take everything out on middle managers so both these poorly paid labor groups infight instead of join together against the top.
Exactly... and abhorrent, backstabbing coworkers, as well.
And pay decent wages with benefits
You must be lazy and entitled. Because, only the lazy and entitled complain and make excuses.
It's simple: I don't want to be a wage slave. It's not worth it.
So why you’ll do instead? Lie on the beach? Lemme guess “start my own business” then you’re a slave to the banks and clients. Life is work either way
@@manoftomorrow5987 No just live with my parents and hope they leave me some inheritance. And in the meantime, do some private tutoring for only a couple hours each day to take care of my expenses. Find a way to make this work.
Why do I need to commute 2-3 hours everyday for an abusive company where I'll be paid poverty wages anyway?
@@anuragchakraborty8766 damn bro…good luck
So you'd rather be a parasite on your parents than work for a living aka "wage slave"?
@anuragchakraborty8766 living with your parents is ok but don't be a leech, share all the expenses with them that way it's beneficial to both. That's what I've done, it's enabled me to not be worked into exhaustion and it's helped my parents finally save some money for retirement.
The juice is no longer worth the squeeze.
I'm one of those people and not ashamed of it. Worked myself down to the bones since age 15, and now I'm taking a break.
Ditto! All our taxes going to old people that hate us, illegals that hate us, and politicians that hate us.
#JustQuit #StopFundingThem #Work4Self
Thank you ❤❤❤❤
me too
thank you for your service
Man up
Whats hilarious is that all the "experts" talking are not "prime age men"
And, doing the interview from Home.
I'm in this age range as a male, and for me I can't find a job, a good paying job.
I hate to blame society, but when employers use long term job gaps, lack of experience, wonky work history, etc, this sets up men to fail.
Plenty of jobs offering 19 bucks per hour. Just enough to pay bills but no chance for advancement
I am in my 30s. I have worked only a labor job not able to afford to live on my own. I have 2 degrees in finance and accounting. There's jobs but all entry jobs want 5 to 10 years of work experience specifically in that particular job. They want 5 to 10 years working at for example A/R accounts receivable. If you worked 6 years at A/P accounts payable.. that won't qualify you because these jobs are 2 different departments even though they're both accounting and if you did one and have a college degree in it you can do the other job. This is how messed up the workforce is. However, these rules are only for men. If you're a woman they will take what they can. I applied to a job at my local city for an accounting clerk job. They wanted a college degree holder with majoring accounting. They wanted 5 years experience. I applied anyways. They never called or anything. After 2 months they took the job down and then reposted the job only requiring a high school diploma doing the same job. They then put preferred 5 years of work experience. I applied again. I had to go thru hoops. I had to take an online exam which was timed and it tested us on our math and accounting skills. If you passed you got to be able to take a in person scantron test. This again test you on math, logic, and accounting skills. They would take the top 5 that scored the highest and then make them take 2nd in person exam which was using MS office using excel and a accounting calculator. This exam was given only one specific day. If you can't make it you forfeit the job. I pass the online exam, go in person to a scantron exam and was part of the top 5 people. I then was told the day to take the 2nd in person exam. I went to it and was the only one that went to the exam. No one else was there. I was there on time. It was 10am I was in the parking lot at 8am doing some minor review of the material. Then at 9:30am I walked in and sat and waited. Then at 10am the lady giving the exam she made me wait until 10:30am. She was calling the other 4 people and leaving messages. Then she just tested me and then I got an interview with 5 people the financial director of the city a woman, the HR lady, it was all women. The finance department is 100% women. I go for my interview and I had to sit and wait. I find out there's another person that got an interview before me. There was an old lady in her late 40s that walked out of the conference room meaning she just had the meeting for the job. I was the 2nd one and that was it. They only interviewed 2 people and that lady got the job. She has 10 years of work experience in working at an office. She has a high school diploma. That was it and never worked as an accountant but she knew people that worked in side the city. She got the job and I didn't. 1 year later I see them posting a job for a CPA for $25 an hour to fix their books. They failed their annual audit. I can go on and on and see how the country favors women over men. I see no benefits for a man to get married nor why work? The workplaces are more and more women and it's more toxic. More gossiped then ever.
That doesn't seem to affect women.
@@calvinhoward3808 Men and Women switched places. Now you see what women have gone through all these decades.
I'm not being critical, I'm genuinely curious. Have you considered getting new skills to open new opportunities? Like learning a trade or working in oil fields or construction? It's not easy but pay can be very lucrative with minimal formal education.
My 26 years old male cousin a college degree grad and in the workforce for 3.5 years said that even if he’s earning good it’s only good for a single person. It’s not good for a family. If the government asked him to raise a family it’s asking him to live poor and unable to provide what his parents was able to provide to a family of 4-5. That’s why he remains single and only have fun with female friends.
I've told girls I wouldn't want to marry them because they have too much student loan debt.
Yes, settling down and starting a family with a single bread winner has become a challenge
Why should they work? Work 2-3 jobs while still being poor not being able to afford anything while still living in your car. Yet still have the nerve to call them lazy. A real shocker huh!
It's not just men, it's everyone. It's more pronounced for men, but the truth is, "they" have eliminated the concept of having a spouse, a family, kids.
They don't want you to have those things. I've never seen relationships in the state they're in now.
And they have the audacity to propose removing government heath care coverage to those at the bottom. Talk about kicking someone while they are down.
Saving up to move overseas is sounding better and better everyday now
Yep best decision I did moved my mother out too
Best decision I ever made was leaving the us
everyone realizing they've been treated like slaves all this time...
Does anyone notice how out of touch everyone in this video sound like?
They aren't out of touch. They are deliberately trying to push an agenda
What do you expect from leftist media? They should all be on TRT in the first place.
Why do these videos about young people always interview nothing but boomers?
@@brandonraphael5809facts
@@brandonraphael5809 Asking a butcher how cows feel inside a butchery 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Unbelievable 🙂↕️
I’m a male and worked hard until my early 30’s with the hopes of marrying and owning a home. I’m 37 now and see marriage as a scam and home ownership unattainable. Why would I keep busting my hump working 60 hours a week pursuing a pipe dream? Now I just work on temporary gigs and investments and take it easy . With my savings maybe I’ll move to Mexico one day and own a home.
Hell yeah dude. I'm 23 right now and I'll make money for a while in the US and then retire somewhere in Asia or Europe and live the easy life.
You nailed it, marriage is a scam. I love seeing men smarten up and beat the system. I wish I knew about marriage fraud 20 years ago.
Move to Mexico, Mexico is good.
Thus taking a home from a Mexican worker and raising their home values.
@@franwex Plot twist my friend: I’m a Mexican citizen.
"Prime age man" here, there are no opportunities that make working hard worth the sacrifice anymore. We cant buy a home, we can barely pay our bills, everything is getting more and more expensive with barely any social safety nets for if you get sick or disabled. I would much rather do the absolute bare mininum to earn enough to pay the bills and actually enjoy my life with the time i would of spent working
God bless you brother, I'm doing the same. I'm a "prime age male", who doesn't want to spend his "prime age" slaving away for nothing. They can go tell some "prime age females" to get back in the kitchen.
Toxic workplaces, horrible management, terrible working conditions, unfair wages for the amount of work is just some of the reasons I’m switching to tech, remote work is the future 😅
Good luck finding a job. LOL
@@ericyuan9718 ya I was thinking the same thing
As someone who worked in tech and got laid off in March, the job market there is tight (a whole lot of ghost jobs) and there is no such thing as job security in any industry with a corporate presence. Though I wish you the best, I want you to stay grounded in your expectations. Also, it'll be easier to land a job through a recruiter with a staffing agency than applying directly. Bon chance!
General apathy from coworkers. Management does not manage anything. No training on job and insulting low pay for the work demanded. Why go through burnout for someone that doesn’t care for you? It’s disgusting out there.
this is true and was my labor job experience even though I have 2 college degrees.
This is America's fault for low wages and high inflation. The job market is a damn joke. In the 1950s thru the 90s you could have a decent life but now can't even buy a value meal at McDonald's.
This CNBC report virtually ignores two huge factors: 1) we have a much larger population than we had in 1955; and 2) worker productivity (the average output per worker) is much higher now, due to automation and other efficiency gains. We actually have twice as many people now as we had in 1955, and employers are getting so much more work out of each worker. As a result, many of our unemployed workers are not really needed. The supply of workers exceeds demand. These "excess" workers find it very hard to get a decent job; only very hard, low-paying jobs are available to them. Real wages (wages adjusted for inflation) have not kept up with the cost of living for a very long time. It's no wonder that men in their prime working years opt out of traditional jobs; they choose to live in their parent's basement, or go on disability, or they work in the "underground" or illicit economy.
You forgot that women are more working than back in 1955. There's more women working, more women going to college and now more competition for men to get a job. Not just that but the country right now is PRO women. They would rather hire a woman to get back at men for suppressing them from being free. It's easier for women to get a job, to go to college because of this favoritism. You add that then add the global population where men born and raised in the U.S.A don't have as good of an education as the ones in other countries and those men in other countries end up getting the jobs in the U.S.A for a far cheaper price.
@bebdaumon3948if I could like both of your comments twice I would. And as a man in this generation a lot of women get more support than men. Literally every girl I went to school with had full backing by their schools grandparents while men were literally I just left to do their thing. I remember in school in career classes we weren't really taken seriously. Even when I was serious about my career they laughed it off like I was dreaming for the Stars. And also don't forget the immigrants. And you're very right about when you said they are trying to get back at men for back then. I've had upper management literally tell me they don't even want to hire Gen Z men anymore due to statistics and labor politics. We are literally working a rigged game.
I'm an unemployed "prime age" man for the past 5 months looking for a tech data analyst job. I've applied to over 1,100 different roles and have only gotten interviews from 12 places. I haven't given up hope yet, but you can't blame the men when they're trying to get employed but can't.
Have you tried looking for a real job?
yea this story doesn't make sense at all, i read dozens of stories like yours from other men who apply like crazy but cant get work ....something is not adding up here
Any job is better than welfare
bud you got scam the people who got in already are filled all the tech job. also the company gather all the data from the tech people so they can lay them off. Also you got to be born early to benefit from the booming market.
On the same boat
52 and not working here.......then again, I'm retired and no longer living in the US. Wife and I sold the house, left the country for a better life with lower cost of living which allowed us to retire early. Both will have SS, 401k and savings when we hit 59.5 and 62. Couldn't have been a better choice for both of us. Enjoying our life with $1500 monthly expenses. US is a work until you're dead society with most people not able to retire even at 70.
I was under the impression that you couldn’t collect SS if you live outside the country. I must have that wrong, since you are doing it. But I agree that the US has a work until you die ethic. I am retired at 56, my husband is 53, but luck, and blessings are the only reason I can say that. My kids are struggling.
@sandisslantoneverything You absolutely can collect SS if you live outside the US, there are 10s of 1000s of expats living off SS alone in south east Asia as well in south America where it is much more affordable. We live in the Philippines now and my wife is only collecting on here pension and 401k, and at 62, SS will be added to the income stream and we have plenty of emergency money in the bank from the sale of our home. When I hit 59.5 and 62, we'll have even more money coming in when I start collecting my retirement funds. Right now, we are living easy and enjoying our time and freedom. Be living even better when my retirement funds kick in 😁
@@AKAAAKcongrats 🎉 you won’t the rat race LOL
@Miick3y no more rat-race running around the concrete-jungles of the US.
So according to these experts, the issue with men leaving the workforce is easy access to welfare and disability and not things like rising physical illnesses, rising healthcare costs, rising insurance costs, decrease in workplace safety on employer side, decrease or elimination of workplace breaks, promising employees permanent positions that end up lasting 1-2 years, increasingly outsourcing labor to contracting houses to make layoffs easier for employers and eliminate severance and job security, elimination of sick days and vacation days by creating pto days, giving employees less pto days, decrease in employee benefits and pay packages, elimination of employer contributions to employee retirement, mandatory overtime, reduced overtime pay, lack of promotional opportunities (often outside candidates are hired), increase in automation, increase in layoffs to consolidate positions, and I could go on and on. But these experts seem to know exactly what they're talking about in the comfort of their bedrooms working from home. Meanwhile, the very men they're talking about are working 50 to 60 hour weeks getting 18 an hour wondering when they'll get laid off and how to afford housing and food when it happens, but hey, it's incredibly easy to get disability, unemployment, or welfare according to the experts. It's not like we have a system where you have to go in front of a judge who makes 150k and plays golf 4 hours a day with no real understanding of your circumstances, illnesses, or the current workplace. Hmm, I wonder if these experts are paid by big corporate activist groups to blame the government and imply people are faking illness on mass scale....oh, and I wonder if yt will delete this comment again.
That was a great post, but this is CNBC. The answer to your rhetorical question is “Yes”. CNBC is a wall street corporatist media agency.
Spot on.
That guy is a curmudgeon with zero answers, or extremely bad non-sequitur ones. I've seen his interviews in other places and he is awful and cluless.
I think this rate is not considering 2 things: 1, many men work jobs that are likely paid under the table so their labor is untracked especially in construction, food service, and gig labor. 2, men disproportionately participate in crime to make their living.
Good point
While this is true, it doesn't explain the rise over the years. All the things you listed occurred 20 or 30 years ago. What changed now?
Men, we are such criminals, always breaking the law, it what’s we do. Yep. That’s the problem. The problem is always men.
My brother quit the workforce at 38. He was trying to save up money for retirement, but because of the stress at work, his health was failing, and was spending more for his health than he could save. So when he eventually quit work, his health became better. I also have a boss who worked himself to death. He did get wealthy, but when he got sick he found soon enough that getting rich was useless as there was no cure for his disease. Also, my brother gave up on having a family, if he couldn't even provide and have time for himself, then he didn't want his children to suffer for it.
That's the thing, we don't know how long we will live. Working to only look forward to retirement is just depressing. Add to that politicians raising the retirement age instead of taxing higher income earners, is maddening.
The main reason is social inequality
No the main reason is when men made most of the money in the economy we took care of women. Now women are closer to be "equal" in terms of income but refuse to take care of men the same way a man would a woman. They want equal benefit without the equal duty.
@@jeffreyoliver1031Fact.
Exactly I literally been told by management before that they want to hire more women now due to back then whenever men were in control like why do I have to suffer for poor past decision-making 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@jeffreyoliver1031If women were equal to men, why would they fully take care of men, especially when you know that one income isn't enough anymore. They should contribute evenly.
Back in the day, one income was enough, so it made more sense for a man to provide financially. Now, if one income was viable today, it would certainly make more sense if a woman provided for the family.
If you're a laborer you're competing with third-world immigrants from Latin america for ever shrinking wages.
If you work in tech, you're competing with third world immigrants from india and china for ever shrinking wages.
Your also competing against fellow americans also don't forget
@@ArtSmosh1274 not really because if companies can hire immigrants they can make a person with a PHD work a $50,000 a year salary. This is good for their country. So, that guy will live in the U.S.A he will work and then pay his bills here and end money to his wife back home which the U.s dollar stretches' far. The lower pay they can make it work. However, Americans born and raised in the U.S.A and has family in the U.S.A can't live on such a low wage. So, you cannot compete. Companies prefer immigrants because they will accept the lower pay even if they have a lot of education. For them the low pay i U.S.D. is an upgrade from what they can get in their own country. So, there's always someone that desperate that will accept the highly educated jobs with lower pay. The companies prefer that then paying a high wage to an American.
Let's all be Economists. Apparently you rarely have to be correct.
Paul Krugman said the economy would bust under Trump, boom under Biden, and he still has a Nobel Prize in Economics.
Economist is not a legally protected title. It's not like Doctor
If you're correct you won't be cited and invited to conferences. You literally have to confirm their delusions because that's what keeps them in the game.
And the ones who can’t even do that become meteorologists!
Unless you want kids or have expensive tastes, or you are one of the few doing something they really love, there is no point in being middle class. You will be overworked and overtaxed and constantly bothered by office politics.
Most men either really don't want kids or don't really care either way. Men have never had that drive for kids that most women have. But the widespread nature of bad attitudes against men has turned men off even more.
As for expensive tastes, most men are quite happy with cheap/free hobbies, like reading, going to the gym, watching TH-cam.
So, yeah, take it easy, unless you are doing something you really love, and/or you have the ability and willingness to become extremely wealthy.
Hit the nail on the head. TH-camrs Aaron Clarey covers a lot of the other reasons.
Yep.
How work treats us is horrible and doesn't make you want to work hard. It makes you want to do the bare minimum and just collect the paycheck and go home
Just collecting a paycheck and going home is called a Government job.
@@silkscreenart5515 No, I work full time(40 hours) in retail
Retail is labor intensive, the pay is miserable, the people around you usually have very poor leadership qualities and on top of all that they offer practically zero benefits. I hope you are somehow able to get out of there and find something that supports your well-being very soon.
@@paolabueso I don't mind the job, the hours, or the 17.15 and hour. The lack of leadership, too many chiefs and not enough indians situation, everyone wants to be in charge and have it their way, the lack of help from the company which exacerbates the situation, and customers horrible behavior just puts it over the top
Hire me then!!! Ive put in hundreds of applications and get nothing!!
I WANT TO WORK!!!
They probably throw all the applications they receive in the garbage, claiming they went through them all. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
There is no investment in men. No investment, no growth...
33 here and out of work almost 6 months. Have degree and masters and gotten to final interviews but gotten turned down. Not looking great :/
That's rough. May I ask what your degree and masters are in?
Take the next best thing while you peruse the right place.
what are those degrees in though?
@@whiskerwalks Political Science and then a Master in Buisness Administration with 7 years sales and management experience. My wife works and I am watching our 1 year old, day care costs 1,500 a month so trying to get something decent.
job market has been really bad the last year, companies havent been hiring. Now that interest rates are lowering you should have an easier time getting a job in the next year.
If you're mad about men not getting married, maybe change the laws that screw them over in divorce court.
This
Yeah you have podcast brain
If you actually do the research and look at the data males end up on top after a divorce.
•They're a growing number of those receiving alimony
•Divorced women are actually in financial ruin once they leave a marriage
•If you want custody go to the courts a lot of males don't petition the court because they have a victim mentality.
Y'all hear 3 stories of some chump tryna turn a 304 into a housewife. The same way y'all say good guys finish last y'all be chasing IG models instead of the conservative homemakers y'all scream about all day.
It's more cost effective to not be married, depending on your income. I'm not saying they reward single mom's butttttt
Why get married if you anticipate divorce?
donate to my campaign. Jon Roe Delaware state senate. family court reform
Because all of the motivating incentives have been strip mined away.
This. From social to economical incentives
Not being able to raise a family makes any hard work not so worthy
this video is sponsored by your friendly neighbourhood college and university
this video feels like a college ads seriously
Maybe more men should go to college, but it is the US economy that has failed, not the men.
The good old college scam, so they can use you for 2 years as trainee. We all know how it works.
@@benjamindover4337 "Maybe more men should put themselves 400,000 in debt and still not have a job on the other side of it" No, I don't think they should. They saw what happened to Millennials and decided they didn't want that for themselves.
Another point : Many people experienced a bull market in the stock market during the pandemic. Some of them firmly believe that they can continue to make money as they did in recent years, so they have become less concerned about their regular job salaries and even stopped working altogether.
I‘m just waiting for those silly bot replies…
This is 100% true.
There's no point in working if you're still going to be poor and homeless. We have homeless Americans, even veterans, who are working. Complaining about people being on government welfare is not the solution. If they weren't on it, they would be committing crimes because there's no point in working.
I think a lot of men are choosing to not burn themselves out playing a losing game. You used to be able to support an entire family, send kids to college, buy a house, have a stay at home wife, vacation all on one salary…now you can’t even afford to rent a studio on that income.
This video was so corporate. We see through your lies. We see what you want.
Busting your ass just to get by. If wages were robust I’m sure there would be more men working to get ahead.
It's unthinkable that nearly 7 million prime-age guys are out of work today, way different from the '50s when pretty much all of them had jobs.
The job market sucks.
Constant low wages and unstable jobs, that’s what I see.
Corporations posting ghost jobs while claiming no one wants to work is insane
This video is about young men not gainfully employed. yet they interview women and old men. No young men were consulted here. This exemplifies the root problem - young men and their concerns are not important whatsoever.
My question is... where are the jobs? When you have to apply to 500 jobs just to get an interview, which you will inevitably get ghosted afterwards anyway... and the salaries? Laughable.... so, what's the point?
you can't even afford rent with that paycheck anyway, so what's the point?
Mass Immigration is another factor that has had an impact. They did not discuss this in the video.
Sure they did... They talked about college education... Which most foreigners do
The jobs immigrants are doing is not affecting your jobs. Y'all are just racist and entitled. A lot of the immigrants are doing low paying blue collar jobs. The jobs y'all quit during COVID
@@Khi-laffa No, they did not discuss mass immigration. You are not very smart.
Exactly, like Ukrainen fighting age man fleeing to western countries.
@@azumishimizu1880 All Mass Immigration has an effect, whether it be refugees or economic migrants. The focus should be to fix the problems causing mass migration otherwise it will never stop.
Women are capable, they are welcome to do those trades/labor jobs if they want.
If they like those pathetic starting wages then let them have it.
No they are not, if they were, it would be happening
My dad does construction and over the past decades there has been an increase of women working there, mostly from central america. It's not even rare nowadays, of course they don't do the heaviest of stuff
I am quite capable as the breadwinner of my household. My husband doesn't work. We are doing just fine.
@@Cornelius87hate to be that guy but those women are the worst. They get paid as much as me to literally not lift or do as much as me. Yeah okay.
I think some of that might literally be the number of women in the workforce has also increased since 1954, so logically the total number of available jobs will be lower and the number of men, specifically will be lower as well. Not saying it's a bad thing for women to be working.
Man all the old engineers are mostly men. Now most of the new ones are women
They're not hiring you because they have to meet diversity numbers it's lame
It is! Let's not pretend
I joined the Navy out of High School to get money for education and to escape the horrible 2007-2008 economy. I went to college for Supply Chain Management when I got out and kept working and trying to make a career work. Only ever had jobs that paid ok. In 2019 I was FINALLY in a position to be looki g at housing. Got outbid by retirement investment firms for cash above asking price. Then covid hit and housing exploded. Despite working since Ive been a teenager, I dont have enough money to enter society. I'm effectively just a worker bee in someone else's society.
Quitting my job this year and entering the ranks of the homeless. I just don't care anymore. The rewards continue to go to the same people who just own things for a living. If I get close to a respectable standard of living, they just inflate my gains away
Society has blamed men for things that happened generations ago, and women have countless resources to take advantage of either private or government, while men get nothing, cost of living has skyrocketed, trades workers aren't paid enough and benefits are terrible. Why does it surprise anyone that many men have given up?
Exactly! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
so who did it women or children? bsfr!!
Women get stuck with kids. Why don't you take the kids full-time and get the resources then.
I think you should pay us more and you got a deal.
I don't get it why not get the women to do construction? They wanted to work so badly and be treated equal to a man. Why aren't the women stepping up and doing construction in droves?
"A little bit due to Chinese factories" most untrue statement ever
US still imports big time from Mexico, China, and other lower wage countries.
And racist. Typical Democrats
@@Victor-it6bv racist? Conservatives also like the cheap stuff from countries with non-white populations.
No matter what you do it’s never going to be good enough!
When I got into construction. I was proud. I didnt waste money on college and was going to learn skill and become a real man. Like my grandfather and farther before me. 15 years in the labor market. My knee, wrist, and back hurt me everyday. I still dont own a home nor do I think I ever will. I will never have a family. Im a borderline alcoholic at this piont and I cant seem to think of a reason to stop drinking. When a new kids joins to work force. I encourage them to reconsider and getting out. Most do when they see how most of the jobsites are alcoholics or drug addics.
Blah blah blah, it's worker pay and benefits.
I would also add to that that younger generations also know social security and medicare is nothing more than a ponzi scheme for them. Labor is taxed significantly to fund a program that won't deliver much in the future.
It’s almost like making family/home ownership impossible to afford has caused problems
Most of the money you make you just hand over for rent, food, and bills. I bet over a million dollars will pass through your hands in during your life but you can't hold on to any of it. You work your whole life and other people end up with the money.
Waged a financial war on the people. Financialization of real-estate when shelter is a human right. This has created a rentier class by allowing people to own second homes in jurisdictions and corporations buying up family homes, preventing families from even being created. It all seems to be about population reduction policies. This video is just another propaganda piece from paid for hacks that serve the government and thus in turn the corporations that bribe and own the politicians.
It's very simple: if getting more able -bodied men into the workforce was that important to you, then put some money into it. Make learning, housing more affordable also healthcare and a livable wage.
You need to make it worthwhile for them to take that responsibility and get up to work in the morning.
God forbid 30yr old men get disability insurance. They should never use the system they help fund.
There’s been a constant effort over the last decade to hire more woman, not because of skills, but for the sake of hiring more women. What did you think was going to happen.
Yes, institutional sexism is real and men have suffered severely because of it.
I always range and shutter inside when I check white male on the job application box
Women work harder.
We need unions to help us get what we deserve. Higher wages, better representation in the govt, healthcare. It’s not a crazy equation. Look at productivity and wages vs union representation rates.
College just It's you drunk, get you laid, get you liberal, and get you debt. We need to trade schools
LOL people pumping the trades. If more men go that route it will drive down starting wages in the trades. A recession would amplify that even more.
Man, I just got let go from my job at Hemasource in Dallas. I worked there for 10 months and worked my way up from just sweeping to order picking using an electric pallet jack whilst becoming one of the most kind employees in the building. I was let go for "bullying" while training a new employee. I never screamed, shouted, or said anything demeaning to this person. This was really disheartening. Fact is, I gave my all to making sure that the job was productive and welcoming. I was never even supposed to be a trainer.🤦🏽
There’s a lot going on with why so many prime-age men aren’t working in the U.S., and it’s not just about laziness or lack of jobs. For one, as somewhat highlighted in the video, health issues are a big factor-more than half of the men not working say they’re dealing with physical or mental health problems and need better support like health insurance or paid leave to get back in the workforce. Also, the drop in wages for men without a college degree compared to their peers has made a lot of them feel it’s just not worth it.
Incarceration is another huge issue that often gets overlooked. Nearly 10% of prime-age men have been in prison, and having a criminal record makes it really hard to find work, even if they’re actively looking. Plus, there’s a big skills mismatch because jobs in manufacturing are disappearing, and the growing sectors, like healthcare, require skills that many men don’t have or aren’t interested in getting.
And honestly, cultural factors matter too. A lot of younger guys are spending more time on video games and other leisure activities, and it’s affecting how much they’re working. So, it’s a complicated mix of health, wages, skills, and even lifestyle changes that’s driving this trend.
Did they even survey 1000 of the 7M men? Where are they getting their facts from? For me it is office stress, being stuck in a cubicle for your life, working weekends and weeknights without getting paid for that, high taxes that benefit everyone else, high health insurance, extreme wealth gap between CEO and average worker, women taking up men's promotions and so on and on and the realization that you finally die working for others.
Im 39.. just lost my job of almost 21 yrs..
The company packed its bags from CA... I have no kids and single.. so Im also going to take a break🍻
Self care
"if left unchecked" sounds a LOT like "we're trying to JUSTIFY FORCING labor"
I don't think the people they interviewed give an accurate representation of the true underlying issues
They didn't because they've been told not to. Because otherwise it would open up a whole new can of worms.
Nobody wants to be a modern serf?! Crazy.
My close friend is a Senior Engineer with over 10 years of experience in manufacturing with a chemical engineering degree from UT. He was unemployed and applied to nearly 300 job postings. Only six called back… Six
This is total bullcrap, men aren’t “Dropping out of the Workforce” we’re being forced out of it, and prevented from coming back.
A lot of hard labor jobs don’t pay all that much more than some fast food restaurants and then there’s no opportunity to growth. Many of these places have management issues on top of that. It gets depressing and makes someone not feel human
It’s gotten to the point where it takes a four-year degree just to get a contract job that lasts for one year.
expect that number to raise significantly from here. There's no need to work with the advancement of AI.
“What we’ve seen is a huge rise in the proportion of prime age men who’ve never been married and don’t have kids at home (…) tracks closely with the big changes we’ve seen about attachment in the labor force.”
Queue feminists screaming at the top of their lungs: we have to marry and give them kids now?!?!
Started my own business, every employer tries to pay the least possible, work you the hardest, and if there are a few women in the office eventually one will falsely accuse you of something for personal gain or because they're mentally ill. Lot of mentally ill ppl nowadays, easily triggered, and they take it out on men they see as success objects, and society promotes it and joins in on the prosecution because it's a female 'standing up for herself and what's right', already seen it happening for 15 yrs now
For me, I go to work, but I hate it because I see the steady decline of people's behavior and how they treat other people. Our society is painfully declining and I choose to be a part of it the least amount that I possibly can. I go to work and I come home. We don't even do food shopping anymore we do ShopRite or Walmart shop from home and have it delivered. Well and it also helps since our daughter is special needs.
Why do we have to worry? Women can do what men do right?
Can? Yes. Want to? No!
Riiight 😂
Nope, not some of the construction jobs they mentioned. Some women can, but not enough to fill 500,000 jobs. And they are creating more heavy labor jobs. Let’s be honest, I am a woman and I could work out all day and not lift what a man can. Pay well, give benefits, they will come back.
Of course. Actually, we will stay at home and take care of household and kids. And they will work in construction. Let's switch roles. Big social experiment. Let's see if they make it 1 week.
So, 89.5% of men are actively employed compared to only 77.8% of women? Am I getting this right?
Now, you can break down the sorts of job each gender does for society...
The hyper focus on why men aren't buying what you're selling anymore as the rewards for doing that become rather meaningless is peculiar to note, isn't it?
No wonder I saw more and more women at work. It used to be more men than women where I worked, yet by the time I left the company (4yrs later) it felt like there were more women than men. Then I thought maybe because more women joined in or the company preferred hiring more women than men. I didn’t think it was also because of more men leaving the workforce.
DEI and are you talking about office jobs or labor jobs?
Same thing here. There are so many working at my job is crazy. Pretty much all of them are doing it to support their children.
Women usually have some amount of solidarity between themselves.
For men, it's all competitive.
No such thing as a good job tbh there is no point working
Lack of quality opportunities
Child Support and Alimony have entered the chat.
Well my mom pays my rent and my gf has an onlyfans and pays for the rest so I can stay home and play fortnite
You're probably joking. But if you're being serious, why not? Sounds good to me, in all honesty.
Live life like a king 😅
$20M CEOs say "we can't find Americans who'll do the job, so we need cheap imported labor."
Translation -":We must violate federal hiring laws, pay below-market wages so I can earn $10,000 per HOUR and keep 'lesser' Americans from succeeding."
Last I checked, the NBA, MLB & NFL have plenty of applicants.
Wonder why🤔
bud the system was rigid from the start if you not born rich then you lose in the game of life and if you are born poor then your life would be suffering. we all believe that if you work hard enough you can have your American dream come true but that the biggest lie in history. Only a select few make it out but that's super rare and not common. People now today needs to work two jobs to get by. Also most of the population doesnt make 6 figure only 11% of the population makes 6figures the rest of the population are living on less than ~40k.
Missing the point here; CEO and executives wages completely outpaced regular workers. Greed has caused this.
As for not going into construction, it's a giant pain. Forst you basically need to know someone in the industry as most places will not train and expect you to have experience, they also expect you to have tools already, and the work place is extremely toxic. Sure it's a man's job so no crying bit were look at the suicide rate in construction workers, it's often over looked and a glaring issue.
if disability pay is the only way to get health insurance, the problem is not with the disability grants but with the state of health insurance. Stop blaming these men and start blaming the greedy health insurance companies and also the greedy corporations letting wages stagnate.
Why don't they just do a survey of men who are not working?
Because the uneducated poors lack the qualifications to participate in the research.
Sarcasm
When men can’t afford to live on their own, and or raise a family it’s frankly not worth it.
Because you can make money on TikTok and TH-cam. Just remember at the jobs you’re just a number…
On TicTok and TH-cam you aren't even a number. You're just free labor.
@@benjamindover4337 sound dumb
@@landonbrown9943do the math, you can't pay rent with hopes and dreams and you parents aren't going to let you live in their basement forever while you pursue your pretend career playing video games.
You are a job and are replaceable, just other robots that include white corporate office jobs. Now AI is taking over.
Sure, you can make money, but can you make enough to pay your rent and bills? Most youtubers earnings per year leave them at poverty level and I'm talking about those that are monetized. Most youtubers do not earn anything.
Either pay me $45/hr starting out or ill be homeless and a burden on every municipality i am forced into. Those are your options.