Labor Participation Rate in USA (mgtow)

[Blue SkiesParticipant 15665]

Labor Day is an appropriate moment to reflect on a quiet catastrophe: the collapse, over two generations, of work for American men. During the past half-century, work rates for U.S. males spiraled relentlessly downward. America is now home to a vast army of jobless men who are no longer even looking for work—roughly seven million of them age 25 to 54, the traditional prime of working life.

This is arguably a crisis, but it is hardly ever discussed in the public square. Received wisdom holds that the U.S. is at or near “full employment.” Most readers have probably heard this, perhaps from the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, who said in a speech last week that “it is a remarkable, and perhaps underappreciated, achievement that the economy has returned to near-full employment in a relatively short time after the Great Recession.”
Near-full employment? In 2015 the work rate (the ratio of employment to population) for American males age 25 to 54 was 84.4%. That’s slightly lower than it had been in 1940, 86.4%, at the tail end of the Great Depression. Benchmarked against 1965, when American men were at genuine full employment, the “male jobs deficit” in 2015 would be nearly 10 million, even after taking into account an older population and more adults in college.

Or look at the fraction of American men age 20 and older without paid work. In the past 50 years it rose to 32% from 19%, and not mainly because of population aging. For prime working-age men, the jobless rate jumped to 15% from 6%. Most of the postwar surge involved voluntary departure from the labor force.

Until roughly the outbreak of World War II, working-age American men fell into basically two categories: either holding a paid job or unemployed. There was no “third way” for able-bodied males. Today there is one: neither working nor seeking work—that is, men who are outside the labor force altogether. Unlike in the past, the U.S. is now evidently rich enough to carry them, after a fashion. The no-work life hardly consigns these men to destitution.
This is at least somewhat true throughout the affluent West, but the U.S. has led the pack. Not even in dysfunctional Greece or “lost generation” Japan has the male flight from work proceeded with such alacrity. The paradox is that Americans—those who do have jobs—are still among the rich world’s hardest-working people. No other developed society puts in such long hours, and at the same time supports such a large share of younger men neither holding jobs nor seeking them.

Who are America’s new cadre of prime-age male unworkers? They tend to be: 1) less educated; 2) never married; 3) native born; and 4) African-American. But those categories intersect in interesting ways. Black married men are more likely to be in the workforce than unmarried whites.

MGTOW is not a movement, it is a way of life.

[HitmanParticipant]

the statistics on the news here reek of 1984 propaganda style.
the twist the numbers around until they start sounding good..
but the homeless men all over the streets tell a different story.
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not homeless WOMEN mind you..
they have resources out the ass..
MEN sleep in the cold and die in back alleys every day.
never hits the news..

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22521]

Hitman wrote:

never hits the news..

There is no news. Only propaganda.

[ILiveAgainParticipant]

All news is equal … but some news is more equal than others.

In the old days of the west, bad news came by horse maybe weeks later.

Then the telegraph made it minutes and finally with the net isnstant.

However, what is happening is the equivalent of the sheriff shooting the messenger and the news never gets revealed.

Corporate/Government/Media are all the same thing CORPORATE MARKSISM.

Most people are to thick to go dig real news events up. The big screen tells all.

Skynet is here.

[FunInTheSunParticipant 8283]

7 million men—that’s like a small nation! Imagine what these guys could contribute to the GDP of the United States if they were working.

Sometimes I get cabin fever when I spend the day inside of my apartment. I like to go for a drive late at night and sort out my thoughts. When I drive down the main street near me, I see men out walking or standing around convenience stores. It’s 2 a.m. in the morning and they have nothing better to do.

"I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win-and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was ‘No.’" (Atlas Shrugged)

[narrow road travelerParticipant 1680]

I don’t know if this is a good or bad thing at this point. On the one hand you have a large amount of people starving and consuming the leviathan. On the other that’s a lot of men without practical life skills. I can think that they won’t ne a problem. If push comes to shove and those guys are going to starve, I’ll have to start killing people. That’s not something I look forward to. These things all seem inevitable because of a generation of men raised by short term thinking, covetous women. I’ll continue to watch the decline and give myself as much of an edge as possible.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. --Sun Tsu

[RoyDalParticipant]

The total USA population is around 300 million.

Eliminate the elderly, children, incarcerated, and disabled; and it is a good guess that the total workforce is about 150 million.

The total population not in the workforce is 94 million.

The government official figure for unemployment is “5%”.

Go figure.

Society asks MGTOWs: Why are you not making more tax-slaves?

[AttonParticipant]

FunInTheSun wrote:

7 million men—that’s like a small nation! Imagine what these guys could contribute to the GDP of the United States if they were working.

Sometimes I get cabin fever when I spend the day inside of my apartment. I like to go for a drive late at night and sort out my thoughts. When I drive down the main street near me, I see men out walking or standing around convenience stores. It’s 2 a.m. in the morning and they have nothing better to do.

More than the entire 150 million of women combined that much is for sure.

A MGTOW is a man who is not a woman's bitch!

[bigboy83Participant 11312]

Man works gets his money stolen by two ass holes, the government or women.

Men by choice are saying f~~~ it.

Shit Tested, Cunt Approved.

[WarratahParticipant 895]

The problem is ‘second jobs’.
Everybody working a second job has effectively taken a job from one of those unemployed men you see standing on street corners.
I realise that the second job is needed to maintain living standards, pay the bills etc.
We need to look at why the second job is essential.
Until the mid seventies, the rate of productivity matched wages, that is, the more that was produced, the more the profit from the produce got shared, as wages, between the workers.
In 1975 that changed.
The productivity graph continued rising but the wage graph, levelled.
Productivity continues to climb. Wages are essentially unchanged.
That’s why we need our second jobs, that’s why so many men are unemployed.
What’s happening to the profits that are no longer being shared amongst the workforce? Haha, they’re going straight to the top!

...And in our own despair, against our will, Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Agamemnon; by Aeschylus

[WarratahParticipant 895]

...And in our own despair, against our will, Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Agamemnon; by Aeschylus

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